Last year at this time, the conventional wisdom was that Kansas State’s utter collapse down the stretch in 2020 indicated that the Wildcats would have a weak secondary. In this space, we told you “Not so fast, my friend.”
We were right.
The most telling statistic of 2021 for the Wildcat secondary was that they only allowed 42 plays of 20-plus yards all season. K-State only gave up 212 yards per game through the air, 44th in the nation and fourth in the Big 12.
The bad news is that safeties Jahron McPherson, Russ Yeast, Reggie Stubblefield, and Ross Elder are all gone.