Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Kansas Jayhawks Football Makes Changes to Depth Chart Before Nevada Game: JB Brown & Marvin Grant Stocks Rise

Starting point is 00:00:00 On today's bonus Locked on Jayhawks, some changes, updates to the depth chart heading into week three against Nevada. A couple interesting ones, especially on the defense side of the ball and a quarterback. We're getting into that on today's edition of Locked on Jayhawks. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Derek Johnson. You can hear me as well, Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m.

Starting point is 00:00:39 on KLWN in Lawrence with Rock Chalk Sports Talk. You can hear me as well right here on Locked On Jayhawks, your first listen every day. We are free and available wherever you get any of your podcasts. And you can also find us where you can like and subscribe to our show on our YouTube page. On today's bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks, Lance Leipold met with the media earlier today, had some interesting stuff to share about Nevada, about the team,

Starting point is 00:01:01 about some of the travel logistics they have to have, and also about Devin Neal, Luke Grimm, Jalen Daniels being banged up a little bit, missing some practice, but also, you know, I think being fine for the long term and for this week and everything, but certainly something to kind of monitor there. But, you know, one of the biggest things that happened today was some of the updates to the depth chart for KU. There were a couple changes, a couple ors added, deleted, or maybe guys switched around here or there, some of them more minor, some of them more major. We're talking about that on this episode,

Starting point is 00:01:30 our bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks. Let's start with the more major ones. The first is at quarterback. Now, maybe this is more of a minor one that is just major because of the position and the players involved. The or is gone at the quarterback position. So we went in week one, which I get, maybe that's a bad thing. Week one, the or was not there and it was Jalen Daniels above Jason Bean

Starting point is 00:01:51 and then Jason Bean ended up starting. So maybe the or being gone where it's now Jalen Daniels ahead of Jason Bean, maybe that's a bad thing. Maybe that's not great based on what happened in week one because week two, there was an or there with Jalen and Jason Bean and ended up being Jalen Daniels being the starter and we didn't see Jason Bean in there at the quarterback position so I don't think it really means much it's more of the same like you just saw Jalen last week you're expecting him to be a starter this week well that's kind of

Starting point is 00:02:17 indicative of that so it's not that it's like a surprise or anything it's just that it furthers that idea there the two big ones I thought were on the defensive side of the football at the linebacker and safety position I want to get into those in just a quick second here first this episode of the show is brought to you by Athletic Brewing Company our game changer of the week you know I already talked about earlier the the Luke Grimm catch from Jalen Daniels how about even the just entire defensive line, six sacks? I mean, unbelievable defensive performance from KU, and that was a big game changer for KU as well. Athletic Brewing Company has completely changed the non-alcoholic beer game. They make non-alcoholic beers that

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Starting point is 00:03:40 and there wasn't even an or there. Now there an or between jb brown and taiwan berry hill but it's not just that they've switched order in where they are now if you go through the ku depth chart you will notice there are oars and at the end of the day i guess it doesn't totally matter which one is listed first and which one is listed second if they're an or but it kind of does because you go through the depth chart and all the guys with the exception of one of them, which we'll get to later here at the tight end position, all of them where it's the first guy is the guy that actually sort of seems to be ahead of the second guy. Like the running back position, it's Daniel Hyshaw or Dylan McDuffie or Torrey Laughlin or Savion Morrison. I forget the order of them all, but Daniel Hyshaw is the first of those oars. Okay, that makes sense. A kicker. It's like Seth Keller is listed as an oar, but he's the first

Starting point is 00:04:30 guy listed there. Last week when it was Jalen Daniels or Jason mean Jalen Daniels was the top guy listed there. Tommy Dunn and DJ Withers Dunn's been getting the official start. He they're both an oar, but he's ahead of DJ Withers there. Like Austin Booker or Patrick Joyner. Booker's on top, even though they are both kind of splitting snaps. Booker has been a little bit higher seemingly on the depth chart. So realistically, the guy who is higher up on the depth chart or is a little bit higher has been maybe getting slightly more playing time in certain regard, even if they are listed as an or.

Starting point is 00:05:03 And it's not just that J.B. Brown is now an or with Tywin Berryhill, which, keep in mind, some of that is injury-related for Tywin Berryhill, but I think also part of it is J.B. Brown-related. He's looked really good. I thought he played really well against Illinois. I thought he played well in the FCS game. Pro Football Focus grades didn't love him. Liked him a lot better in Week 2, but you're lining him up all over the field.

Starting point is 00:05:22 Really impressed with what he's brought to the table, the physicality he brings, and even some of the pass rush stuff that he's doing there. But it's that you didn't just slop on an or to the depth chart. You took the time to change it to make J.B. Brown the top guy. So I view that as pretty indicative of something. Similar thing at the safety position. Marvin Grant, to begin with, was listed as an or with O.J. Burroughs, but Burroughs was the first guy on top of it, and Grant was the second guy. Now it's switched. Now Marvin Grant is the first guy with OJ Burroughs at the second. I think it's interesting for a couple of reasons. One, Marvin Grant, I viewed more as like a box

Starting point is 00:05:55 safety coming into the year that maybe it would make more sense to play him with OJ Burroughs, or if you're going to play him, maybe it's a three safety look. And maybe it made less sense to play him with Kenny Logan. But Marvin Grant's looked pretty good in coverage so far. And he just, he's improved on his game. We've talked a lot about the film study that he's done and put in extra time to that. Now he's better at some of those things that you can play him better next to Kenny Logan and not have to worry about, well, is there enough coverage out here? He's looked really impressive to start out the season.

Starting point is 00:06:26 And so it makes sense that he is up there. I'm also still really high on OJ Burroughs and he'll still obviously be in the game a ton. So it's not to say that, you know, he's just going to take away all the snaps or something from OJ Burroughs, but Marvin Grant now moving ahead there, I think is indicative and kind of a nod to him and owed to him about how well he has played kind of start out this season. I don't want to finish off with maybe some more of the minor things or things not to put stock in with this bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks.

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Starting point is 00:07:43 weeks. They've just swapped sides. Brown is the backup left tackle. Clements is the backup right tackle. That was kind of what I thought might happen, or I'm sorry, I think Clements is the backup left tackle now. Brown is the backup right tackle now, and those were switched before the season. I think I might have said that backwards, but yeah, Clements backup left tackle, Brown backup right tackle now. That's kind of what I thought before the season coming in throughout fall camp, I guess I should say, of what it was going to end up being, and now that's kind of the case here.

Starting point is 00:08:10 Also, Kalen Girvin is listed as a starter over Kobe Bryant. Now that obviously doesn't have to do with something Kobe's done. It's a targeting call. It's that Kobe will start, I'd imagine, in the second half and moving forward, but Kalen Girvin will get the, in the second half and moving forward. But Kalen Girvin will get the start in the first half because Kobe Bryant will miss some time, will miss that first half with the targeting call happening against the Illinois game. But it does show, you know, Quentin Lasseter's played well.

Starting point is 00:08:37 He had the back-to-back weeks with interceptions. Only played like a handful of snaps last week and didn't play like a ton of snaps the week before, but impressed in both of them. You know, would he possibly get the start over Kobe Bryant for the first half no they're still going with Kalen Girvin the experienced guy and he gets the nod right there things not to put stock in at all there's still an or at punter and kicker we've only seen one punt from Damon Greaves so far that's a great thing for Kansas you'd love that number to stay that low and contain continue to be that low per rate of the games coming up. But he's the starting punter.

Starting point is 00:09:07 And as far as the kicking stuff goes, like Seth Keller is the starting kicker till proven otherwise. Four for four on field goals so far, nine for nine on PATs. The only other one, there's still an or with Trevor Cardell and Jared Casey, which I found kind of interesting. And this is the one exception I was talking about. Cardell is actually slightly ahead of interesting. And this is the one exception I was talking about. Cardell is actually slightly ahead of Casey. I think what that's more indicative of is if let's say hypothetically, Mason Fairchild was missing time or had an injury or something. If you're playing one of them at the true like number top tight end guy, I think it would be Cardell in over Casey in that role because the way they

Starting point is 00:09:39 use Casey is more of an H back role. And as a second tight end to use him in motion and in different ways that they want him specifically for that role. That even though Jared Casey is the second tight end, if again, Fairchild were to have an injury, Cardell would leap into Fairchild's spot and Casey would stay in Casey's spot, if that kind of makes sense.

Starting point is 00:09:57 So that's still the same, even though Cardell had single digit snaps last week. So I don't read too much into that. That's going to do it for this bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks, though. We'll have another episode coming up tomorrow that is going to be talking about why Kansas should be ranked in the top 25. We're also going to get on to our KU basketball early preview of the center position later this week.

Starting point is 00:10:17 We'll have our KU Nevada preview earlier, or I mean later this week as well. All that coming up with Locked on Jayhawks. You can find the show wherever you get any of your podcasts. You can find us on our YouTube page. Like and subscribe to the show. See you next time.

Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Kansas Jayhawks Football Makes Changes to Depth Chart Before Nevada Game: JB Brown & Marvin Grant Stocks Rise

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