McMurphy: Jalon Daniels to Start Friday

Three days into KU’s football season, we have ourselves a very confusing situation at QB for the Jayhawks. Really, the confusion started last week when all indications were that preseason Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year Jalon Daniels would be starting against Missouri State, despite back tightness greatly limiting his participation in fall camp. Rumors picked up Friday afternoon, hours before kickoff, that Daniels’ lingering back problem might be a bigger deal than initially indicated, and that backup Jason Bean, already familiar to Kansas fans from last year’s accomplishments, would be QB1. Daniels would be announced as the starting QB to the stadium crowd, but it was Bean who both started, and took every meaningful snap of the game until the reigns were handed to true freshman Cole Ballard late in the blowout win.

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