LEXINGTON, Ky. — Since 2019, 17 Kentucky Wildcats football players have been selected in the NFL draft.
Of those 17 draftees, seven — Luke Fortner, Darian Kinnard, Phil Hoskins, Lynn Bowden, Mike Edwards, Benny Snell and George Asafo-Adjai — came to UK as products of Ohio high school football.
That is only one illustration of how vital the Buckeye State has been to Ohio natives Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow — both products of Youngstown, you might have heard — in their elevation of the UK football program from SEC bottom feeder to respectability.