Friday Headlines: Former Cats on NFL Rosters and Practice Squads

Week One of college football getting underway means Week One of the NFL regular season is less than a week away.

After three weeks of preseason this month, NFL teams were busy earlier this week as they worked quickly to trim down their active players to get to the standard 53-man roster.

There were 34 former Kentucky Wildcats who participated in the NFL preseason, and 13 of them made an official 53-man roster.

Those 13 former players were Ray Davis (Buffalo Bills), Bud Dupree (LA Chargers), Brandin Echols (Pittsburgh Steelers), Luke Fortner (New Orleans Saints), Josh Hines-Allen (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darian Kinnard (Green Bay Packers), Bryce Oliver (Tennessee Titans), Dru Phillips (NY…