Week two Kansas State football practice observations
KSO attended the first part of practice on Monday, August 14. Our observations can be seen below.
Kansas State injury report
Nicks, dings and bruises happen at training camp, and it’s no different at Kansas State.
As we reported already, neither linebacker Daniel Green or nose guard Uso Seumalo practiced. Seumalo was not in attendance from what I saw, and Green spent his time on the stationary bike with Trumain Carroll while we were there.
Also on stationary bikes with Green were Ty Bowman, Jordan Schippers and Tyler Nelome.
Other K-State players seemed a bit limited. Jordan Allen had a club on his hand, seemingly to protect a hand injury. Just like the first practice we saw, defensive back Nickendre Stiger was spotted wearing a red no-contact jersey.
NFL teams
It wasn’t long ago that head coach Chris Klieman bragged about how many NFL scouts had already been in to visit Kansas State practice. He should, too, after producing more and more professional players each year.
A lot of teams want to see Cooper Beebe, who could make it consecutive years that the Wildcats have a first rounder, but there’s other talent that are receiving looks, too. That would include KT Leveston, Khalid Duke, Ben Sinnott, Will Howard, Daniel Green, Marques Sigle and Kobe Savage.
Starting offensive line
When beginning position drills with K-State assistant Conor Riley, it sure seemed like they did it by units. The first one consisted of KT Leveston, Cooper Beebe, Hayden Gillum, Hadley Panzer and Carver Willis from left to right.
That seems to spot on to be some kind of coincidence. That would be my guess as to the starting Kansas State offensive line at the moment, though I had heard that Taylor Poitier was pushing Panzer a bit at right guard.
John Pastore was another player that I didn’t spot at practice on Monday, meaning the second unit of tackles were Jackson Fullmer and Drake Bequaeith. The interior players were Taylor Poitier and Andrew Leingang, with both Michael Capria and Sam Hecht taking reps at center.
Another K-State position switch
We shared it earlier on Monday, but one position move that we uncovered was that defensive back Jordan Wright was now working primarily with the safeties rather than cornerback. Klieman had noted before how he was bouncing back and forth between the two spots.
Another defensive switch was made apparent when we observed practice on Monday morning. Safety Jordan Perry is no longer in the defensive backfield for K-State. He was exclusively working with only the linebackers.
He originally signed on to be a safety in Manhattan, but he does possess a lot of length to eventually grow into the position and be a weapon. We’ll monitor his progress at his new home on the defensive side of the ball.
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