LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas head football coach David Beaty met with the media in Mrkonic Auditorium inside the Anderson Family Football Complex Tuesday at 1 p.m. for his weekly press conference, this time previewing Saturday’s matchup against Iowa State. A replay of his press conference can be found by clicking the link above.

COACH BEATY: Right now, give you a little bit of an injury update. Marcquis (Roberts) is probably going to be out this week with a shoulder. He separated it in the game the other day, so we’re not going to have his services.

Mike Lee and Montell (Cozart) both have recovered pretty well from their concussion protocol. We’ll see how they look today out at practice. Once you get that activity going, sometimes that tells you a little bit more about where they are at.

Joe Gibson on the other hand, we feel like he’s actually ready to go, which would be good to have him back into the mix and the rotation there.

Bobby Hartzog, he didn’t make the trip the other day. He had an injury in practice last week to his achilles. He still isn’t practicing with us today, so he doesn’t look like he’s going to be able to make the trip or make the game this week, but we’ll see.

Mike Lee, like I said, he’s responded pretty well. He looked pretty good. Those are the guys really that I know you may have some questions about.

We did get some good news from the league the other day that Daniel Wise has been reinstated from the penalty that occurred the other night. So we’re getting him back and that’s some good news. I know we’re excited about that.

Just moving on to Iowa State, our seniors, I can’t be prouder of those guys. They have done a really good job of leading our team. I have a lot of questions a lot of times about how our guys continue to move forward and how they are so resilient, and the answer is just quite simply in those seniors remembers and their character. They have done a really nice job. They deserve a great finish here to end their senior year, and our guys are committed to doing that for them and those guys are, too, Fish, Banks, those guys have kind of led the charge there are to us.

So we are committed to getting those guys a great finish starting with this week. It’s going on a great Saturday against another really good opponent. They have a lot of experience coming back on that anybody team. There’s a new staff there, and Matt has done a terrific job with those guys.

Offensively I think I counted up 173 starts that they have. They have a bunch of experience. They have four senior offensive linemen, and they have got one of the best receivers that I’ve seen around, Allen Lazard. I know him well, recruited him back in the day. Big kid, really about player.

They have got a couple other wide-outs that are really, really good, too. They have got a stable of running backs, some young running backs that are starting to play really well for them and of course we all know what Mike Warren can do, he’s a talented guy.

Defensively you can just see Matt (Campbell) bringing his stamp to the table with those guys. He’s done a really good job. They have got a leader over there in the secondary, and the (Kamari) Cotton-Moya kid, I think he’s a really good player. Jhaustin Thomas is a defensive tackle, really big guy. They have got some big guys inside. Demond Tucker and Jhaustin Thomas are both really big, sizable guys that, man, you have a hard time in those A-gaps with those guys.

They do a really good job on special teams and he really has done a great job of getting these guys to be very competitive in a very tough league early in his career.

So I know it’s going to be a great challenge. I know both of us are looking forward to playing, so it will be good to see them on Saturday.