Bye Bye Bearcats Seniors: #62 Cory Keebler

Another offensive lineman on our goodbye tour, there’s gonna be a lot of them so strap in, is local product Cory Keebler.

One of the largest players to walk around Clifton, likely shaking the ground as he moved his feet, hails from Lakota East High School in the Northern suburbs. But Keebler came to UC as a slender, lanky 235 lbs tight end. Like most high school players, he didn’t have the body to play the tackle position in college but Butch Jones saw the monster brewing inside him.

Keebler redshirted his freshman year and never sniffed the two-deep until his junior year. During that time the skinny Thunderhawk tight end piled on 60 lbs of weight to develop into the gargantuan Bearcat…