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That would allow him to enter the 2022 season as the equivalent of a sophomore, with three more full seasons left to play. However, Daniels, like any player who was on a roster in 2020, can still take advantage of the NCAA’s blanket eligibility waiver from the pandemic. If Daniels plays for KU at TCU on Saturday (3 p.m., ESPN+) as planned, it will mark his fifth appearance of the season, officially putting an end to the previous plans, because four is the maximum number of games for a redshirt player. Honestly, this offseason really did that for me.” “These are things that coming into college I had to learn,” Daniels said. He now has a much better feel for what his receivers are about to encounter and what certain defensive fronts mean for the play KU is about to run. “Being able to see blitzes coming pre-snap, being able to see coverages pre-snap, seeing what they’re doing,” Daniels said of how he has improved since his freshman year. The contrast in his abilities to execute as a QB, Daniels said, has to do with the mental aspect of playing the position. This past Saturday, after completing 70% of his throws, not turning the ball over and hitting fullback Jared Casey for a high stakes two-point conversion to win the game, Daniels told reporters he’s “definitely a totally different quarterback out there” this year. In seven appearances (six starts) a year ago, Daniels only threw one TD pass while going 76-for-152 (50%) through the air, with 718 passing yards and four interceptions. 1 QB, even though he was a true freshman at the time. The 19-year old from Lawndale, Calif., hadn’t started a game since 2020, when he spent most of the pandemic-shortened season as KU’s No. When Bean’s injury lingered in the days leading up to KU’s trip to Texas, Daniels prepped for the potential start, and no one was sure whether he would play beyond that this season. That made it necessary for Daniels to finish that game at QB, marking his third appearance of 2021 as a reserve. However, both Bean and Kendrick suffered injuries during the first half of KU’s home loss to Kansas State on Nov. Though Daniels competed with junior Jason Bean and senior Miles Kendrick for the starting job throughout the preseason, Bean won the top spot on the depth chart and went on to start KU’s first nine games. The start at Texas was the 6-foot, 215-pound QB’s first of the season. “He sees the momentum of what this team is doing, what it’s done for our locker room and he's all in to help us build this program and he wants to play,” Leipold said of Daniels’ ultimate willingness to scrap a redshirt year and play in KU’s final two games. The result of the Texas game and Daniels’ role in it, of course, changed everything. KU’s head coach said the whole process was one of the more positive collaborative decisions he’s been a part of. “We told the family that we would respect their decision on what they want to do,” Leipold said. Leipold said he had “a lot of conversations” over the past few days, with offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki, quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski and Daniels, as well as the QB’s parents. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Īfter Daniels played so well, the coaches knew they needed to find out whether the QB would be interested in diverting from the previous plan for his 2021 season, which was to redshirt.
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels (6) looks to pass against Texas during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Austin, Texas, Saturday, Nov.
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