THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
PAGE 9
FOOTBALL
HANNAH WISE/KANSAN
Junior receiver D.J. Beshears finished with 285 all-purpose yards against Northern Illinois, including seven passes for 70 yards. He also returned two kickoffs past the 50-yard line and was named the Big 12 special teams player of the week.
ETHAN PADWAY epadway@kansan.com
Junior receiver D.J. Beshears was named the Big 12 special teams player of the week and was one of six players named to the Paul Hornung Award weekly roll after finishing with 285 all-purpose yards in Kansas' 45-42 victory against Northern Illinois.
Beshears scored the first touchdown of the game on a 15-yard reception from sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb midway through the first quarter. Beshears the cornerback deep and
Webb hit him in the endzone to put the Jayhawks up 7-0.
He finished the day as the Jayhawks' leading receiver, catching seven passes for 70 yards and two touchdowns.
Beshears was big in all facets of the game. He returned two kickoffs past the 50-yard line to give the Jayhawks a short field, including his 51-yard return to the Northern Illinois 47-yard line with fewer than five minutes to play to set up the game-winning score.
of the drive, Beshears ran 18 yards along the sideline before muscle cramps forced him to tip-toe out of bounds at the 26-yard line.
That wasn't the last time Beshears burnt the Northern Illinois defense. On the second play
With nine seconds left in the game, Beshears found a hole in the middle of the Northern Illinois defense and caught a pass from Webb. He muscled his way across the goal line and past a Northern Illinois defender to put Kansas ahead for good and complete the Jayhawks' upset.
- Edited by Ben Chipman
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