had Ward, who served as the Wildcats’ wide receivers coach during their 2022 Big 12 Championship season and has spent the last three seasons at Illinois, has been hired as Kansas State’s associate head coach and will tutor the wide receivers, head coach Collin Klein announced Friday.
Ward comes back to Manhattan after working the last three seasons at Illinois as the running backs coach, which included the title of assistant head coach during the final two years. Over the last two seasons, he helped lead the Illini to consecutive seasons with at least nine victories and back-to-back bowl wins for the first time in program history.
“My family and I are extremely honored and excited about returning to Kansas State University to build something special,” Ward said. “I am super excited to get to work with Coach Klein and this staff and looking forward to getting right to work.”
