For the last few years of Bill Snyder’s tenure in Manhattan, the bitter departure of wide receivers from the program seemed to be an annual ritual. So it was a legitimate surprise when Snyder’s retirement was followed by the departure of the team’s top target in 2018 in Isaiah Zuber, compounded by the fact that he decamped for a team on this year’s schedule.
Zuber’s exit, followed by the sudden arrest and exile of Hunter Rison in the spring, was all the ammunition anyone needed to declare that Kansas State would struggle in the passing game this year, and while it’s our position that the concerns are drastically overblown, there are in fact still concerns.