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The oldest running back on the Kansas football team is a 24-year-old sixth-year senior who casually refers to some of his teammates as “youngsters.”
Taylor Cox will actually turn 25 this September, during the opening weeks of the season, which only partially explains a turbulent and injury-plagued three seasons at Kansas. Cox, a former junior-college transfer, is returning from a torn Achilles that wiped out his entire 2014 season. The Achilles injury, suffered in the preseason, came just one year after Cox took a medical redshirt in 2013.
In all, Cox hasn’t played in a college football game since Sept.