Report: Jalon Daniels agrees to deal with Kansas, will return in 2025
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels has agreed to a new deal to stay with the Jayhawks in 2025, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. It will be his final college season. During his five years in Lawrence with the Jayhawks, Daniels has thrown for 6,751 total passing yards and 45 touchdowns.
Here is the announcement he made on his Twitter page on Friday evening.
He currently ranks second in all-time passing yardage in Jayhawk football history, behind Todd Reesing. Daniels also owns the record for the most passing yards for a single game in KU program history (Arkansas–Liberty Bowl–2022 (544 passing yards). His 45 passing touchdowns for his career also rank second in program history behind Reesing (90 total touchdowns).
This season, Daniels completed 57.0% of his passes for 2,454 passing yards, while tossing in 14 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. As a runner, he had 93 carries for 447 rushing yards and six touchdowns. While the Jayhawks struggled during the first half of the season, Kansas won four of their last six down the stretch.
One of his best games came in a 45-36 win over the Iowa State Cyclones. Daniels racked up over 350 all-purpose yards and three total touchdowns in that win. He also played well enough for KU to stun the No. 6 ranked BYU Cougars, 17-13. Those two wins plus the Kansas victory over 16th ranked Colorado, gave the Jayhawks three wins over Top 25 opponents. While the Jayhawks finished 5-7 overall and won’t be going to a bowl game, they certainly played spoiler multiple times in the second half of the year.
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In 2023, his season was shortened due to injuries. Daniels completed 74.7% of his passes for 705 passing yards, while tossing in five touchdowns with an interception.
In 2022, he completed 66.1 percent of his passes for 2,014 yards, while tossing in 18 touchdowns and four interceptions. As a runner, he had 77 rushing attempts for 419 yards and seven touchdowns.
During the 2022 season, he carried the program to a historic 5-0 start. Kansas finished with a 6-7 overall record, falling to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl 55-53, in one of the most highly entertaining games of the 2022-2023 bowl season.