When safety Landon Nelson joined the Kansas football team as a 168-pound preferred walk-on who “didn’t talk at all," then-first-year head coach Lance Leipold and strength coach Matt Gildersleeve saw potential in him. “They forced me to be uncomfortable,” Nelson said. “They forced me ...
Coming up on Aug. 23 is the start of Jalon Daniels’ final season. Coming later on is another season just over a year away in which KU no longer has Daniels as its starting quarterback — something it hasn’t experienced since 2021. The rest of the Jayhawks’ quarterback room, headlined ...
In past years, Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels took on a particular look when he was truly locked in. Strength coach Matt Gildersleeve called it his “game-day eyes” — presumably because it was most closely associated with some dozen days a year on which the Jayhawks were about to go to ...
The “competitive edge” of the Kansas football program, strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said on Thursday, is “back like never before.” That’s the result of bringing in an estimated 50 new scholarship players over the course of the offseason, all of whom were guaranteed an opportunity ...
The Kansas football team is entering what may be its most consequential fall camp during Lance Leipold’s tenure, or at least since his first season at the helm. As coaches and players frequently noted during the spring, the introduction of a bevy of transfers across numerous positions has ...
The Kansas football team quietly added a new punter to its fresh group of specialists ahead of the 2025 season. Efren Jasso, a senior who spent his first three seasons at Prairie View A&M at the FCS level, was added to the KU football team's online roster in a recent update, ahead of the ...
Acquiring four transfer wide receivers wasn’t quite enough for the Kansas football coaching staff. The Jayhawks took advantage of a newly enacted portal window for Designated Student-Athletes (DSAs) that opened on July 7 and earned the commitment of Nebraska transfer Jaiden Doss on Monday. ...
