On Thursday, LD Brown and Chuba Hubbard said they “begged” Mike Gundy to let them return kicks. And apparently he has acquiesced. According to Friday’s depth chart, Brown and Chuba will in fact be the kick returners.
This is nothing new for either of course. Chuba led the team in 2018 with 23 returns for 22 yards a pop, and LD returned a pair for 37 yards total. Nobody else on the team returned more than two last season.
Last year was last year though. Chuba wasn’t RB1 to start the year, and LD wasn’t going to get meaningful reps in the backfield unless something really (REALLY) bad happened.