Sophomore defensive tackle Kyon Barrs is listed as a starter for the Arizona Wildcats’ 2020 opener against the USC Trojans.
It’s not a position he expected to be in coming out of Murrieta Mesa High School last year. Barrs was a late addition to the 2019 recruiting class, committing in May of that year.
“It’s actually a crazy story,” Barrs said Tuesday via Zoom. “I was originally gonna go JuCo, and I was already working out with the JuCo, Riverside City College. And I was just training and my coach was planning to have a showcase where all college coaches would come and watch, but I wasn’t going to go because I was already a senior.