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2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DE Wyatt Hubert, Kansas State,...It marks the second-straight season that Hubert is a candidate for the Nagurski Trophy as the National Defensive Player of the Year. It is the 21st time a Wildcat has been in consideration for the award, which includes previous finalists Chris Canty (1995 and 1996), Jeff Kelly (1998 runner up) and Terence Newman (2002). Hubert, who was named to the Bednarik Award watch list and the Preseason All-Big 12 team last week, was a 2019 First Team All-Big 12 performer by both the league's coaches and the Associated Press. As a sophomore, the Topeka, Kansas, native totaled 33 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss and 7.0 sacks as he also earned votes for the Big 12 Defensive Player and Defensive Lineman of the Year awards. - Kansas State Football

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07/26/20 - Skylar Thompson, rSr/2022, Kansas State, 6-2, 217 (DS#12 QB) + More +

2020 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: QB Skylar Thompson, Kansas State,...A two-time team captain, Thompson ranks in the top 10 in K-State history in 10 career categories, while he can become the first quarterback in school history to throw for 6,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a career. Last season, Thompson earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 accolades after throwing for 2,315 yards and 12 touchdowns in addition to rushing for 405 yards and 11 scores, all career highs. - Kansas State Football

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QB Skylar Thompson, Kansas State
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07/26/20 - Skylar Thompson, rSr/2022, Kansas State, 6-2, 217 (DS#12 QB) + More +

2020 WUERFFEL TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Skylar Thompson, Kansas State, senior, quarterback,...Thompson, a native of Independence, Missouri, has been active in Big Brothers Big Sisters for multiple years, while he has also reached out to youth who have been going through struggling times, even inviting one to a game last season. His desire to help kids through hardship stems from the own adversity he endured as a kid that was detailed through his own first-person story In His Own Words - Keep Surviving, which won a regional writing contest award from CoSIDA. - Kansas State Football

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QB Skylar Thompson, Kansas State
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07/24/20 - Daniel Imatorbhebhe, rSr/2022, Kansas State, 6-3, 226 (DS#46 TE) + More +

Just seven months after his long-awaited return, tight end Daniel Imatorbhebhe is leaving USC. Imatorbhebhe entered the NCAA transfer portal as a graduate transfer this week, closing the door on a frustrating, injury-prone tenure with the Trojans. Imatorbhebhe began his career at Florida, but soon transferred to USC, where he burst onto the scene as a redshirt freshman during USC's 2016 run to the Rose Bowl. The tight end caught four touchdown passes over the season's final eight games, emerging as a favorite red-zone target of quarterback Sam Darnold. But nagging groin and hip injuries followed him from there, sapping him of his effectiveness as a sophomore, before robbing him of an entire season in 2018. The following summer, USC listed him as a "squadman lost," and coach Clay Helton announced that Imatorbhebhe would leave the team to "focus on finalizing his master's degree." - Los Angeles Times

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TE Daniel Imatorbhebhe, Kansas State
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07/23/20 - Blake Lynch, Sr/2021, Kansas State, 5-04, 144 (DS#12 K) + More +

2020 PRESEASON LOU GROZA COLLEGIATE PLACE-KICKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Blake Lynch, Kansas State,...With a career 89.2% accuracy rate, Lynch currently stands as the most accurate kicker in a Kansas State history that includes 1997 Groza winner Martin Gramatica and two-time finalist Jamie Rheem. That mark also ranks third among all active FBS kickers with at least 30 career field goal attempts. - Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award

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K Blake Lynch, Kansas State
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07/22/20 - Adrian Martinez, rSr/2023, Kansas State, 6-2, 221 (DS#24 QB) + More +

The Legislature on Tuesday gave final 37-6 approval to a bill that would allow college athletes in Nebraska to earn money through personal endorsement of products and use of their name, image or likeness. The measure (LB962), sponsored by Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha, was modeled after legislation enacted by California lawmakers a year ago. The proposal, part of a growing movement that would dramatically alter the traditional status of amateur college athletes, will head to Gov. Pete Ricketts' desk. Hunt's Nebraska Fair Pay to Play Act would also allow athletes to make money by promoting sponsored content on social media and by giving private lessons or hosting camps.

Opponents of the change have argued that it will ignite a new kind of bidding war in the recruitment of college athletes in which donors or business leaders may play a leading role in offering the prospect of lucrative endorsement prospects or opportunities to recruits. Supporters have argued that universities, TV sports networks and other businesses are enriched by the performance of college athletes while they receive no financial benefit beyond athletic scholarships and accompanying benefits provided by the universities they attend. "With more than 25 states looking at this issue, Nebraska has an opportunity to be a leader in providing economic freedoms to college athletes," Hunt said in a statement following enactment of the bill. "Nebraska is the third state in the nation to enact name, image and likeness rights legislation," she said. - Lincoln Journal Star

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QB Adrian Martinez, Kansas State
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07/20/20 - *Wyatt Hubert, rJr/2021, Kansas State, 6-3, 258 (DS#23 DE) + More +

2020 PRESEASON BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: DE Wyatt Hubert, Kansas State,...Hubert is the first Wildcat to land on the watch list for the Bednarik Award – presented to the College Defensive Player of the Year – since D.J. Reed in 2017. He is the eighth player in school history to be considered for the award, which includes 1996 finalist Chris Canty and 2012 semifinalist Arthur Brown. A 2019 First Team All-Big 12 performer, Hubert enters his junior season ranked 12th nationally among active players in career sacks per game (0.50) and 13th in career tackles for loss per game (0.91).

Hubert, who earned votes for both the league's defensive player and defensive lineman of the year awards last year, has recorded 11.5 sacks over his first two seasons, tied for the second most ever by a Wildcat prior to his junior campaign. Hubert, a native of Topeka, Kansas, started 12 games last season with 33 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss and 7.0 sacks. He tied for second in the Big 12 in sacks and was 10th in TFLs. - Kansas State Football

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DE *Wyatt Hubert, Kansas State
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07/14/20 - *Wyatt Hubert, rJr/2021, Kansas State, 6-3, 258 (DS#23 DE) + More +

Whether the college football season takes place this fall or in the spring, plenty of eyes will be trained on Kansas State's Wyatt Hubert. A rising fourth-year junior, Hubert was named to the watch list for the Chuck Bednarik Award on Monday. The award, presented by the Maxwell Football Club, annually is given to the player judged to be the best defender in the country. One of the top returning defensive ends in the nation, Hubert is the first Wildcat to land on the award's preseason watch list since D.J. Reed in 2017. He is the eighth player in school history to be considered for the award, which includes 1996 finalist Chris Canty and 2012 semifinalist Arthur Brown. Hubert, a Topeka native, was a first-team All-Big 12 selection last fall. He enters his junior season ranked 12th nationally among active players in career sacks per game (0.50) and 13th in career tackles for loss per game (0.91). - Manhattan Mercury

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DE *Wyatt Hubert, Kansas State
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07/09/20 - Adrian Martinez, rSr/2023, Kansas State, 6-2, 221 (DS#24 QB) + More +

Adrian Martinez's struggle was real last season. But the Nebraska junior quarterback thinks what he learned could produce benefits that are just as real. He sheds quite a bit of light during a recent "No Struggle No Story" podcast, acknowledging that his injuries last season coupled with his team's losing wore on him mentally. He also acknowledged the inherent challenges Nebraska faces in striving to become a national power again. Throughout the interview, the California native shows signs of personal growth. Yeah, the whole college thing - learning, coping, growing, thriving - seemingly is working for him. "A big operation like this, turning around one of the top football programs in the country, is tough," said Martinez, noting the strength of the Big Ten Conference. "It's going to take some time. I think we knew that."

He's now 9-12 in two seasons as Nebraska's starting quarterback after going 5-5 in 2019. Coming off a strong freshman season in 2018, he admits he felt the weight of high expectations entering last year. Then came an overtime loss at Colorado in the second game, then a 48-7 home loss to Ohio State in the fifth game. He felt pressure mounting. "It was tough," said the 6-foot-2, 225-pound native of Fresno. "I won't lie. It definitely got to me a bit during that stretch of the year, when we lost to Ohio State in a big way in a prime-time game. That was tough. We were hoping for a better result." He alluded to his injuries. First, it was a knee injury that occurred near the end of an Oct. 5 home win against Northwestern. He missed back-to-back games - losses at Minnesota and to Indiana in Lincoln. - Lincoln Journal Star

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QB Adrian Martinez, Kansas State
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06/30/20 - Adrian Martinez, rSr/2023, Kansas State, 6-2, 221 (DS#24 QB) + More +

Nebraska quarterback Adrian Martinez endured what many considered to be a sophomore slump last season. He's apparently working hard this offseason to bust out of the slump. "I think there's some things that he's done differently this year that will give him an opportunity to be better," Husker head coach Scott Frost said Monday. Asked for specifics, the coach said, "I think it's just his mindset and his approach. He came in his first year and had to compete for that spot, and he looked like a competitor every single day in practice."

Martinez's mindset carried into competition as the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Californian averaged a school-record 295.1 yards of total offense per game and was named a freshman All-American by the Football Writers Association of America. "Year 2, because of the situation, I think he was able to put it in cruise control a little more, and I think that showed up on the field a little bit," Frost said. "That's not to put everything on him. There's a lot of things he couldn't control. But I don't think he'll be lax in his preparation ever again." After completing 64.6% of his passes as a freshman, Martinez dipped to 59.4% last season. After averaging 237.9 passing yards per game in 2018, he averaged 195.6 in 2019. - Lincoln Journal Star

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QB Adrian Martinez, Kansas State
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06/20/20 - Elijah Sullivan, rSr/2021, Kansas State, 6-0, 214 (DS#29 OLB) + More +

Kansas State football's summer workouts are on pause. In a release from the athletics department Saturday, K-State announced it has suspended the football program's voluntary workouts for the next 14 days as a result of this week's positive coronavirus results. As of Friday, K-State has confirmed 14 student-athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 since returning to campus this summer. K-State's football program started voluntary summer workouts Monday, the first day Big 12 teams were permitted to do so.

K-State is the second school to suspend summer workouts, following Houston, which did so June 12 after six symptomatic student-athletes, spread across various sports, tested positive. The updated total for K-State is an increase of six known positives; the athletics department announced Thursday eight student-athletes had tested positive. It also represents an increase in Riley County on the whole: The county now has has 103 positives, with 12 new since Wednesday. Of those, six of the new cases are the K-State student-athletes announced Saturday, a Manhattan city health official confirmed. - Manhattan Mercury

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OLB Elijah Sullivan, Kansas State
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06/16/20 - Darren Sproles, Sr/2005, Kansas State, 5-06, 187 (DS#14 RB) + More +

All-time Kansas State greats Michael Bishop and Darren Sproles could be headed to the College Football Hall of Fame. The two K-State Ring of Honors members were among 78 Football Bowl Subdivision players named on the 2021 hall of fame ballot announced Tuesday by the National Football Foundation. The ballots were emailed to more than 12,000 NFF members and current Hall of Famers. The class will be announced in early 2021. Sproles was a first-team All-American at running back as a junior in 2003 and a three-time all-Big 12 selection. At the time of his graduation after the 2004 season, he held 28 school records, 21 of which still stand.

Sproles, who also was a standout at Olathe North High School, left K-State with 4,979 career rushing yards, nearly 2,000 more than any other Wildcat. He was fifth in the 2003 Heisman Trophy balloting and third in the Associated Press player of the year vote. Sproles was a fourth-round pick in the 2004 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers and played 15 seasons before retiring last year. He finished his career with 19,696 all-purpose yards - fifth in NFL history - and ranks seventh in career punt-return yards and eighth in kickoff-return yards. Sproles played in three Pro Bowls and was named to the All-Pro team seven times. - Topeka Capital Journal

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RB Darren Sproles, Kansas State
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06/12/20 - Sammy Wheeler, rSr/2023, Kansas State, 6-5, 232 (DS#56 TE) + More +

Kansas State tight end Sammy Wheeler's legal issues are resolved. The case against Wheeler was dismissed Thursday after a motion filed by the Manhattan city prosecutor was granted, according to documents The Mercury obtained through an open records request. Before the motion to dismiss was approved, Wheeler had been scheduled to appear in court at 8 a.m. on July 21. The now-moot court appearance stemmed from Wheeler's arrest in Manhattan last month.

The Kansas State University Police Department arrested Wheeler at 12:43 a.m. on May 17 in the 1100 block of Thurston Street on charges of unlawful use of a driver's license, purchase/possession/consumption of liquor by a minor (first offense) and interference with a law enforcement officer (intending to obstruct by falsely reporting information). A fourth charge came the following day: urinating in public. The arrest was unfortunate timing for Wheeler: It came just one day before turned 21; his birthday is May 18. K-State's football program didn't release an official statement following the arrest. - Manhattan Mercury

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TE Sammy Wheeler, Kansas State
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06/12/20 - *Wyatt Hubert, rJr/2021, Kansas State, 6-3, 258 (DS#23 DE) + More +

Chris Klieman and Kansas State will help cap off this year's Big 12 football media days - virtually, of course. Klieman and two still-to-be-announced players will be part of the final day of the two-day virtual event on July 21. Other teams on the second day include Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas and West Virginia. Day 1 will feature Iowa State Kansas, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas Tech on July 20. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Big 12 football media days originally were scheduled to take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on July 20 and 21. The conference canceled the in-person event last month because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - Manhattan Mercury

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DE *Wyatt Hubert, Kansas State
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05/25/20 - Adrian Martinez, rSr/2023, Kansas State, 6-2, 221 (DS#24 QB) + More +

Adrian Martinez had a promising freshman season for Nebraska and then fell short of massive expectations in 2019. In both of his years as NU's starting quarterback, he's missed time due to injury, in large part because he's been asked to carry a heavy workload in the run game. Martinez is a serious talent, works hard and has leadership qualities, so it befuddled Nebraska coaches last year as to why he struggled. The bottom line is he must make good decisions - last year's 10-to-9 touchdown-to-interception ratio won't cut it and he's turned the ball over 27 times in 21 career starts - and he must improve his accuracy. - Lincoln Journal Star

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QB Adrian Martinez, Kansas State
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