It’s almost here, the 2018 Kansas State Wildcats football season opener is less than two weeks away. So it’s time to start previewing the Wildcats, position by position.
We’ll start our BotC previews with one of the position groups hit hardest by graduations the last two seasons: the defensive line.
The loss of Jordan Willis to graduation and the 2017 NFL Draft caused as much disruption to the defensive end spot as many predicted — which is actually fairly uncommon for a Bill Snyder-coached team. It didn’t help that returning starter, and 2016 Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year and All-American Reggie Walker was slowed by some sort of injury through much of 2017.