Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - KANSAS STOCK REPORT | Jalon Daniels & More Jayhawks UP! Who/What is DOWN or Stuck in Neutral???

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks football: Soaring or stalling after season's first quarter? Derek Johnson's stock market report reveals surprising trends through three games of the 2025 KU season.Johnson analyzes the... Jayhawks' offense, defense, and special teams, highlighting Jalon Daniels' impressive 72% completion rate and 9.1 yards per attempt. The linebacker core, led by Trey Lathan and Bangally Kamara, shows promise, while concerns linger about the young defensive backs. Coaching strategies and game management come under scrutiny, with a focus on the team's 0-5 rivalry game record.Will the Jayhawks' improved offense and evolving defense translate to more wins? Tune in for Johnson's in-depth breakdown of Kansas football's strengths and weaknesses.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!5-Hour ENERGYTee up that trip! Enter for a chance to win a dream golf trip for two to any golf tournament* in the USA. Visit https://5HEWIN.com for full rules and entry. No purchase necessary. Excludes the Master’s tournament. Ends October 31, 2025.The Game CapGrab your team’s classic bar or retro circle designed hat and use code LOCKEDON for an exclusive discount. Head to Because legends wear The Game. Head to https://thegamecaps.com DripDropRight now, DripDropis offering Locked On listeners 20% off your first order. Just head to https://dripdrop.com and use promocode LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Stock up now before the heat hits hard.DoorDashWith DoorDash Streaks, you save every Saturday you order — stack it up all season and you could save up to $250. Order this Saturday. Keep the streak alive. Fuel your gameday — only with DoorDash. Terms apply. Promo period through 11/18.MazdaIt’s the small details that make the big plays. And just like there’s more to every player, there’s more to a Mazda vehicle. Mazda. Move and Be Moved. SupplyHouseJoin the free TradeMaster program today and score serious perks like priority shipping, lower prices, and a dedicated support line. Visit https://www.supplyhouse.com/apply-for-trademasterto sign up for free and use promo code SHCOLLEGE5 for 5% off your first order. GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at https://www.monarchmoney.com/lockedoncollege for 50% off your first year.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 We're through the first quarter of the season for KU football. I'm going to tell you why the stock is up on Jalen Daniels and some other aspects and players for KU football as well as where's the stock down and where things sit in neutral headed into KU's fourth game next week against West Virginia. You are locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks. part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on, Derek Johnson here? This is Locked-on Jayhawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day. And thank you to the everydayers catching each and every episode of the show.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Shout out to the everydayers who, you know, say hi to me in person. Shout out to Cade and any of the other everydayers if you bump into me in person. So always nice to catch up with people. And thanks for making it your first listen every day, anywhere at your podcast or on YouTube on today's edition. of Locked on Jayhawks. We are talking our stock market report through the first quarter of the year for KU football.
Starting point is 00:01:04 It's been three games into the year. We're about to start Big 12 play. Where is stock up? Where is stock down? Where is stock neutral or maybe to be determined on this final three quarters of the season upcoming? Before we're getting into any of that, today's episode of the show is brought to you by Fandual.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Football season is here. Visit the Fandulab today and start planning your week three and future bets today. So we're going to start with the offense side of the ball, move to the defense, and then finish up with special teams and coaching. And let's start with the stocks up, start with the fun stuff here. Jalen Daniels, to me, is clearly stocks up on the season. And when we're doing this, it's kind of one of those things that's like, okay, from what is the previous point? Are we talking from where we were in fall camp?
Starting point is 00:01:47 Are we talking from where we were in the off season? Are we talking from where we were at the end of last season? Like, where are we picking off from to say the stock is up from where it was before? Honestly, though, regardless of what end point, you know, whether it is the end of last year or in the offseason, I do think you would feel like the stock is up on Jalen regardless. He's up to 72%. Like if we are just comparing this to last year, for instance, to say stocks up on that, last year Jalen was at 57% completion rate. This year he's a 72%. It's up 15% there. And obviously, you know, having Jim Zabrowski and Matt Lubick back around you with Zabrowski now calling the plays, I think that helps with Grimes. But part of that is J.D as well. And Daniel's also up about a yard per pass attempt,
Starting point is 00:02:30 a 9.1 yards per attempt. Last year, he was at 8.2. Last season, he had 14 passing touchdowns compared to 12 interceptions. This year, he's already only five passing touchdowns away from that mark with 10 less interceptions. He's also got a 76.6 total QBR that is up eight points from where it was last season. He has done all this with a team that actually technically has, well, not technically it does. It is a higher drop rate so far.
Starting point is 00:02:55 this season. It's close, but it is a higher drop rate this year than it was last year. So you can't even just point to it and say, okay, well, he's getting way more help from the receivers, actually a higher drop rate. Now, you could say, okay, this team is more optimized to, you know, have guys get yard after the catch, so you can complete more, you know, shorter throws and end up with a decent gain on him. But he's still been able to throw, you know, downfield while he's throwing over the middle much better than he was a season ago. And again, I think part of that is just the play calling and the offense and scheme and what they're doing to get that open in the middle. But right now, he's in the 81st percentile for pass EPA per play. Just overall, Jalen has been awesome so
Starting point is 00:03:34 far this season for the first three games for KU. And who knows, if Emmanuel Henderson catches that pass, maybe he engineers, he goes from having the 92-yard touchdown drive, maybe he engineers another fourth quarter comeback drive in that Missouri game to win that game. And then at this point like I mean the conversation would be you know off the chain at that point is that something people says no there's no way it's something people still say I feel embarrassed even saying it anyway a tight ends the stock is up I think for K you we came into the season and honestly like like when I was looking at the biggest position groups of question coming into this year's team I think there were some questions that you would lay on the defensive back room when you lost
Starting point is 00:04:13 all that you did but I kind of felt like okay even though it's going to be an experience they are going to have a lot of talent in that DV room. It was like, okay, what are you going to get from the office line? A lot of new, you know, pieces there that you're asking put together in the tight end room. Those were probably my two or three biggest, you know, position group questions that I had for this team. And all of a sudden, tight end has become a strength of KU.
Starting point is 00:04:35 We mentioned this earlier in the week, but on pro football focus, Deshawn Hanukkah is the highest graded tight end on PFF right now. And again, take the PFF grades with a grain of salt. sometimes the data, the specific stats, like if you're looking at, I don't know, like coverage grades, like how often you're being targeted, what are you giving up or, you know, your pressure rate, like stuff like that can be more valuable than the grade itself. Like for instance, Leroy Harris, I think has like a 67 pass rush grade despite like having a bunch of pressures.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Like I think in the last game he had like a 66.4 pass rush grade against Missouri despite having four pressures and two sacks and like 17 pass rush snap. So like, you know, you take the grades themselves with the grain of salt. but you know it's just one data point among many and hannica felt like he has had a good start to the season well that kind of backs it up where he is first among big 12th tight ends you also have boden grown though who is ninth carson brun's 15th late cure is 16th there's 32 qualified tight ends in the big 12 that essentially means that was 16 teams on average each school has two obviously kansas has four on there because they're playing more tight ends some schools you know who
Starting point is 00:05:40 spread it out they might not be playing any so it kind of makes up for it that way but that would basically mean on average, you would hope that, okay, you have one in maybe the top eight and one in the top 24. So that would basically mean you have one in the top half and another as a top half backup. Kansas instead has four in the entire top half. So tight end has become a position of strength. You've got additionally got them more involved in the passing game. Hanukkah's three touchdowns. Collectively, those four tight ends for Kansas have 17 catches for 216 yards and three touchdowns. Last season, the KU tight ends combined for 31 catches for 3991 yards and two touchdowns for the full season.
Starting point is 00:06:19 So they already have more touchdown receptions this year than they had last year. Now, we're stocks down on the offense. The KU running game. I mean, whenever you lose Devin Neal, your all-time leading rush in program history, there's going to be a certain amount of hit that you suffer. But I think the idea was KU's still been such a good running team that they're still going to be able to, yeah, maybe it won't be Devin Neal, but they're still going to be able to manufacture some positivity here.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Right now, Kansas is only 25th percentile in run EPA per play. They're only 11th percentile in run explosive rate. And Kansas is currently kind of middle of the pack in the Big 12 in some of the, I guess, like rushing total numbers. You would say to this point in time, like they're ninth in the Big 12 right now in rushing yards per game. They are ninth in the Big 12 in rushing yards per play. Again, that's of 16s.
Starting point is 00:07:10 So you're basically like kind of smack dab in the middle. And then that comes after last year, you were third in the Big 12 in both those categories, rushing yards per game and rushing yards per play. So again, going from third last year to ninth this year. And you do keep in mind that, okay, well, the Missouri game is taking up 33% of that output. And that was a bad rushing game for you against a really good defensive line. You could also say, though, does that game get equaled out by getting to play Wagner if you're talking small sample size? So it'll be very interesting to see how Kansas runs the ball against Big 12 play. But yeah, right now I find that very interesting.
Starting point is 00:07:42 And if we're looking at, you know, I'm not saying the KU offense align, like they struggled getting a push against Missouri. At the same point in time, right now, Kansas is 15th in the country in offensive line run push. So their top 15 in the country in what the rushing yards of the offensive line is getting, they need to get more production from the running backs themselves. I do think getting, you know, LaShawn Williams, I'd like to see him have a bigger role than he had in the Missouri game. I think he has a little more juice. and maybe we even see some of the younger guys because I think some of the younger guys have the most juice in the running back room.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Maybe we see them get involved as the season goes on, but Kansas needs to get that figured out because that right now is stocks down. Also, late downs is stocks down for the offense. Right now, Kansas is 93rd percentile on average third down distance. So they are, that's a good number. That means their average third down is short
Starting point is 00:08:33 compared to a lot of other schools. Yet despite that, Kansas is only 17th percentile in success rate on late. downs, which is odd because last year they were really good at it. Kansas last season was 51% on third down. That led the big 12. So far this year, Kansas is 29%, which is 15th in the big 12. So despite having these short third downs, they haven't been able to convert them at a high rate. Now, the flip side, the glass half full on that is actually that the KU offense looked pretty good and they're not converting third downs. Maybe that can be a little more fickle or maybe
Starting point is 00:09:07 if it, I guess, reverts to the mean of what we've seen Kansas be on third. down the previous really three years under Lance Leipold with Jalen Daniels if they look more like that offense on third down moving forward and they're already doing this without being good on third downs what is that going to mean like how good are they going to be then that could be exciting one way to look at it and then neutral and TBD i would say the receivers i think we've seen some flashes um but it's been a little inconsistent i also think that uh i put this in tbd because you know picket has been a little banged up the last couple games he's played through it but it doesn't seem like the same guy who was in the Fresno game. We'll see what the by week does for him.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Bryson Canty was probably projected to be one of your three best receivers. Maybe one of your two best receivers coming into the year. And he's barely played because of getting a late start and fall camp coming from the injury. Maybe again, the by week helps him get back into things. That would certainly be a boost for KU. And then the offensive line, I would give kind of a neutral in TBD because if you're comparing to last year, it's down. But again, you're talking about top 15 in the country, an offensive line yards rush push,
Starting point is 00:10:07 according to pick six previews. They are 12th nationally on pro football focus and run blocking, but they're only 82nd on pro football focus and pass blocking. Even though I feel like that number should be higher, I feel like they got dinged too much in the Missouri game. And individually, I think Kobe Baines right tackle spot are up. Clements and Foster have been down, but maybe that gives you hope because if those are the guys you were counting on,
Starting point is 00:10:30 you would expect them to figure it out as the season goes on. And so if the other spots are working together, Maybe the stock will be up by the time we get to quarter two. But yeah, I think right now it's kind of neutral TBD, if not slightly, stocks down for that offensive line. All right, let's get to the defense side of the ball, stocks up, stocks down for KU football. This episode of the show is brought to you by DoorDash. It's almost the weekend. Time to look back and crown this week's MVP on Who Delivered.
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Starting point is 00:12:16 Let's start with the up. Leroy Harris, baby. Again, 68 PFF grade, which that's fine. Like when you're talking like the, so I've talked about this before. Like if you're 60 and above, you're basically like 60 to that 70 range. Once you get to 70, it's like, okay, that's good. So once you're getting into the higher 60s, you're encroats. on that in the 60s is supposed to be like you know average level starter 55 is kind of that like
Starting point is 00:12:39 replacement level player is again ideally what their their scores going for again it's not a perfect system and i do think harris has played better than the 68 pff grade but point being 68 pff grade and i think he's been better than that right uh eight tackles three and a half sacks 71 pass first grade eight pressures with a 10% win rate and we talked about this coming in the year dean Miller last year, second team all big 12. Some of his sacks came by volume. You know, he ended up closer to like a 7% pass horse win rate. Well, right now Leroy Harris is at close to 10%. So that's pretty impressive for Harris so far this season. He's been awesome. And he's still a younger player. That's really exciting for KU moving forward. The linebacker court has stocks up here. I think specifically
Starting point is 00:13:23 Trey Lathen and Bengali Kamara. So Lathen has 25 tackles through three games. He's only missed two tackles. Two past deflections, four TFL's, 78 PFF grade. If you look at his pro football focus grade last year at West Virginia, he had good production, but the PFF grade wasn't great. But also, he was coming off a like torn ACL from the year before. So the fact that he was just out there for as much as he did and produced as much as he did was impressive on its own. Now he has another year under his belt post injury. Now things are going to be quicker and faster. And that was kind of the idea of this offseason. And so far it's come together. He's been just, I think he's been one of KU's most underrated players, right? You think about, you know, Jalen Daniels or
Starting point is 00:14:01 Manuel Henderson or I don't know, some of these guys that KU has. You don't always think of Trey Lath. You even think of Bengali Kamara, right, in terms of flash at linebacker and stuff. But Trey Lathen has been a constant for KU. He's been awesome so far this year for Kansas. And then Bengali Kamara, 13 tackles, four TFLs, one sack, only a 64 PFF grade, which is basically because his tackle grade is below 30 right now. We talked about this. He had four miss tackles against Missou, that's going to equalize out. Even if Bengali Kamara has just a fine tackling year, let's say he gets a 60 tackling grade. If you're saying he's a 64 PFF grade right now, which is basically just kind of an average level player, and that's
Starting point is 00:14:38 with a bad tackling grade, if he just gets to an average tackling grade, does that mean he's an all big 12 linebacker? Probably does. So, uh, plus the fact that like, okay, he's missing tackles, what he's playing through injury and that, you know, maybe if he's not playing through injury, maybe he makes the secure tackle, you know. And maybe if he decides not to play, then maybe Keyes backup linebacker doesn't even get the opportunity to miss the tackle because maybe he's not there in time, right? So I think Bengali Camaro's been great. He's been a big addition.
Starting point is 00:15:07 So is Lathen. The only thing it sucks is both those guys are in their final year. So it feels like you have improved your linebacking course so much and you're going to have to reset it again next year. But this is fun. So J.B. Brown was really good at getting TFLs and stuffing the run last year for KU, 10 TFLs. But Kansas has only got five.
Starting point is 00:15:23 from Cornell Wheeler, two TFLs from Taiwan, very ill. Right now, Trey Lathan and Bengali Kumar have eight combined TFLs. That's awesome to see in the early going. Also, I should mention Jason Gilliam came back in the Mizzou game. He had a 78 PFF grade. It was just 10 snaps, but that was good to see. Maybe that gives another boost to him. And then the idea of having possibly Joseph Sip later in the season is exciting too,
Starting point is 00:15:44 though going back to the idea that like, oh, you know, you have these guys who are awesome right now, but then they're going to graduate until you keep SIP out until the final four weeks so you can redshirt them so you can have them back for another year but uh k u right now is a stuff rate of 72 percentile nationally so they're basically in the top 30 percent of college football last year they were in the ninth percentile so their stuff rate from the linebackers and the d line obviously helps to that too has been on night and day early downs uh this is a quick one last year kansas was 10th percentile an early down success rate on defense this year and then the 72nd percentile and that makes sense when you think of the missouri game even when they couldn't
Starting point is 00:16:21 stop Missouri there. It was third and fourth downs. He was actually doing okay on first and second down to that one. A havoc rate, Kansas has done a much better job of causing chaos this year. They're averaging 3.3 sacks per game right now. Last season, they were at 2.3. So another sack per game. That'll do, right. 85%, I'm sorry, 85th percentile in havoc rate. What is havoc rate? It is the percentage of plays where the defense gets a tackle for loss, a forced fumble, an interception, or a broken up pass. Basically, you are causing the chaos, so to speak. You are, you know, breaking up a play for them. They're in the 85th percentile right now. So again, a few, you know, busted plays here, there against Missouri, but like, you're still
Starting point is 00:17:00 getting those havoc plays, which over the long haul, that's going to lead to you being a much better defense than you've been in the past. Now, what is down on the defense side of the ball? I would say the strong side defense event spot, I think coming into the year, I thought this was going to be a big strength of this team. I thought Alex Bray and Justice Finkeley would be studs, bind. They've been fine so far, but I think there was even higher expectations, especially for me of Finkley. I thought there would be a chance of Finkley would be KU's best defensive end. So far, it's been Leroy Harris. Finkley's rated a 53 on Pro Football Focus. I will say, though, you know, to Finkley's credit, I do think he's at times made plays that open up plays for other
Starting point is 00:17:35 people. Maybe he hasn't always gotten credit for that. But then Alex Bray is 62 on PFF. Right now, the two of them combined zero combined sacks, three tackles for lost 12 tackles. I still think both players can make a big impact for KU. And we saw some flashes for Bray in the first couple of games of the season, but they're going to need them to. You know, if they want to get to where they want to go as a defense, those guys have to step up to where you were expecting them to. And I still think they can.
Starting point is 00:18:00 But right now you would have expected more than, you know, not having a sack from one of those two spots. I think the young defensive backs, their talent translating to immediate production is down. I still think they're talented. But right now, Kansas is in the fourth percent. in preventing explosive pass plays. So they're giving up way too many explosives. 21st percentile and passing EPA per play allowed.
Starting point is 00:18:23 There's been some good. You know, you've gotten some game experience for Austin Alexander. You've gotten more for Jalen Todd and Taylor Davis and stuff. But also, all three of those players who have very bright futures and are going to be good players for KU, whether it's, you know, next year or later this year, they've all allowed a completion percentage higher than 70% to this point this season. So you have talent in that back end, and they going back to the Havocrate thing,
Starting point is 00:18:49 like there have been plays where they're making good plays to get a pass breakup, but also they're young. It's going to take them some time in that back end. And if they do click later in the season and put their talent together with that game experience later in the year with what KU has in the front seven, I can see KU being one of those teams over the final five, six games of the season or whatever, we're like, wow, this defense is even better than it was at the beginning of the year. And then late downs is dead.
Starting point is 00:19:14 down as well in the stock market report, 19th percentile last year, or 19th percentile this year, they were 27th percentile in success rate in late downs. It's actually gotten a little bit worse, and that makes sense with the Missouri game. Though I don't think everybody's going to be able to take advantage of it as much as Missouri would. The neutral and TBD, the defensive tackles, like they've been as advertised. I don't know that they have that one all big 12 guy, but if I had to pick one, I think Tommy Dunn is probably the closest to it in putting.
Starting point is 00:19:44 that together. But at this point, like KU's defensive tackles have been good. And then you kind of expected that coming into the air. And so, no, you know, gripes about that. I would also say tackling is a, I wouldn't put this in neutral necessarily. I would put it in TBD. They've missed 36 tackles this year. That's an average of 12 per game. A little higher than you'd like, you'd like, but not like a huge amount higher. But it was a big one against Missouri, 24 against Missouri. You also had just 12 in the first two games. So which one is it for Kansas, right? And is there any chance the linebacker injuries made this tougher. I mean, it probably did. But what is KU realistically from a tackling standpoint? Is this just the matchup thing? Was it just one bad game? We're going to
Starting point is 00:20:22 learn much more about that. But the tackling, KU needs to be more secure at it, obviously, than the Missouri game moving forward. But, you know, outside of that, and they had tackling problems in the first drive. They faced Fresno State in that first game. They probably missed three or four tackles on that first drive. So it's almost like you probably missed like four tackles on that first drive. Then that would mean from that point on, the rest of the Fresno state game plus the Wagner game, you would have only missed eight tackles. for the entirety of the game. For that stretch, you were great at it,
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Starting point is 00:22:39 Every day, get ready for week three of this season. Okay, stock report on the KU special teams and coaching. I would say kicking and punting, it's up. I mean, 13 of 13 on PATs, three of three on field goals, Finn Lappin's at 49 yards per punt, high expectations for both those guys based on what they accomplished before coming into KU, but it seems like they've kind of lived up to it, and that's been good for KU.
Starting point is 00:23:01 I would also say from the coaching element stocks up on the coordinators, whether you want to call it like the playbooks, the schemes, how they're calling the plays. I didn't look at that Missouri game as, oh my gosh, what is D.K. McDonald doing? like, I can't believe he did. No, I think it was just like, at times their players outplayed your players, you know? And I'm sure if you asked DK McDonald and went back and watched the film, he'd be like, yeah, I wish I had this one back or I wish I had that one back.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Like, you're not going to be perfect. You're not going to get every single call right. So I'm sure there were like a few things. But like, I didn't watch the game and be like, oh, man, can you believe they just did this? I was like, no, like, yeah, like, both peribula just dropped one in a bucket or the KUDB like just couldn't cover this guy. or whatever it was, you know, I've been impressed with the versatility that he's showing on defense with the multiplicity that they're showing.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Same with the offense. They're very much like on both ends of the ball, they at least keep you guessing a little bit and they make you have to try to think out there, which is kind of the goal to try to prevent you from playing fast. So I've really liked what Kayu's gotten from both coordinator spots. Now, where is stocks down here? I would just say record and rivalry games. They're 0 and 5 at this point.
Starting point is 00:24:14 puts even more pressure on the Kansas State game. And if Kansas State is bad coming into the game, too, it almost puts even more pressure on Kansas because then at that point for K State, it would be like, oh, well, this is all we have to play for the season. Whereas with Kansas, it's like, oh, no, we have to finally beat them. This is as bad as they've been, you know? So it just feels like there's going to be even more pressure on that game than initially intended, but whatever.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Neutral, I would say game management concerns. That's something that reared its ugly head in the Missouri game. I also don't think it's that dissimilar from past games and stuff that we've kind of seen with this coaching staff, like being conservative in a lot of ways and not always using the proper usage of timeouts or being aggressive as you need to a certain situation. That's kind of how it's just in. So I don't think that's changed and I don't really expected to change moving forward. I think your best bet is just hope that a few luck balls go your way a little bit more here and there and just execute even better to avoid being in those
Starting point is 00:25:07 situations, I guess. And then I have one more category here for the coaching and special teams. And this category that I haven't unveiled yet is called the crazy category. And that would be the Tate Nagy punt returns. Eight punt returns, 65 yards, that's 8.1 yards per punt return. Seventh in the Big 12. So that's, you know, solid. It's the most attempts in the Big 12, which tells you one thing that, like, he does not want a fair catch it.
Starting point is 00:25:34 He wants to go. He wants to go for sure. And I think that's part of it. It's like, you don't know what's going to happen when he's returning it. As long as he's catching the football and holding on to it, I don't really care. if he loses two yards doing some crazy stuff just catch it that that's at this point what i'm kind of at um what would it be the most if kansas is ever going to beat k state is it going to be a moment like that where like we get to that game and everybody's thinking of the Trevor Wilson play
Starting point is 00:26:00 from a couple years ago and take naggie's going to field some punt wherever it's like no no no no and he's going to catch it and instead of like to reverse it you finally if you beat k state it's going to take take taggy doing that but then he like houses it for a time touchdown. You know, that could happen. Anything is, I don't know, nothing would surprise me. The part returns are, uh, it's entertaining. I'll say that. It is very entertaining. All right. That'll know for this episode of Locked on Jayhawks. You can find their show anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show. We're going to be back at you on Friday to talk a little bit about the bye week for KU football
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