BY SALINA POST
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Hello and happy Thursday, everybody, it’s Tyler Henry, back with another KINA Sports Update presented by Salina Regional Orthopedic and Sports Medicine…
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On Wednesday Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels became one of 90 college student-athletes named to the Watch List for the 2024 Comeback Player of the Year Award on Wednesday.
The award recognizes college football student-athletes for overcoming injury, illness or other circumstances. And this is the third preseason watch list of the offseason for Daniels, who has honored by the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Award leading into the 2024 season.
Daniels is back for his redshirt junior season after being limited to three games by injury in 2023. In limited time, Daniels led Kansas to a 3-0 record while throwing for 705 yards and five touchdowns in 2023.
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Kansas senior Lawrence Arnold has also been selected to the preseason watch list for the 2024 Biletnikoff Award, recognizing college football’s most outstanding reciever
Arnold finished the 2023 campaign with 44 receptions for 784 yards and six touchdowns. He had two 100-yard receiving games and closed out the season with a career-high 132 yards and three touchdown in the Jayhawks’ 49-36 victory over UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
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And finally Bobby Witt Jr. had two homers, a double and four RBIs as the Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 Wednesday night and salvaged the final game of a three-game series.
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