Kansas doesn't have as much speed at receiver as most Big 12 schools so getting separation from the defense consistently is a challenge. Windows seldom open wide, so when one does crack open, it's imperative the ball is delivered quickly. Therein lies the biggest difference between Peyton ...
Scott Frost and his coaching staff didn’t transform an 0-12 UCF football program into a 13-0 one in two years by making poor decisions evaluating talent. That qualifies as one reason to believe Kansas improved its secondary by signing long-limbed, 6-foot-1 cornerback Elijah Jones. He ...
Playing in the secondary requires more than making plays. It also involves doing the team thing and being in the right place so that the quarterback doesn’t have an obvious place to go with the ball. That requires a discipline that Hasan Defense didn’t always exhibit as a sophomore in ...
On a defense that welcomes so many new faces into the mix to battle for spots on the depth chart, there is an increased value to a smart player who has played in 22 games in the program and started 11 last season. The value becomes greater when considering that he brings a team-first ...
Most of this list consists of players who made their way onto it either because of past performance or their names being brought up by players and/or coaches as making big strides without first being asked about them. Every list needs at least one exception. Daylon Charlot, a junior ...
There might not be a more dedicated player in the Kansas football program than Jeremiah Booker, a 6-foot-2, 212-pound senior receiver from College Station, Texas. A captain, Booker frequently is cited by teammates as a player who provides leadership in the weight room, on the practice ...
A 6-foot-3, 287-pound native of Ypsilanti, Mich., Charles "Codey" Cole has taken an interesting path to the Big 12. Cole started his career at Tiffin University, an NCAA Division II school in Ohio. After a year there, he enrolled at Butler Community College in El Dorado and earned a ...
In reviewing the pleasant surprises from the 1-11 2017 season — an exercise that shouldn't take very long — don't forget to include place kicker Gabriel Rui. In his first season as KU's kicker, Rui brought the 3-pointer back to the football program in a way it hadn't been seen in a ...
