Devin Leary Learning to Adjust to Life Under Center

Jacob Noger | UK AthleticsDevin Leary has thrown plenty of passes throughout his lengthy college career, 568 to be precise. Most of those plays started with the quarterback lined up in a shotgun formation. That will not always be the case at Kentucky. He’s re-learning how to take snaps under center and hand the ball off to his running backs at the Wildcats’ spring practice.

“Just operating under center, that was something he hadn’t done,” offensive coordinator Liam Coen said Tuesday. “It’s very similar to when I first got here, Joey (Gatewood) and Beau (Allen), that hand’t really operated underneath the center. Just to take the snap and execute a handoff is new. It sounds pretty elementary…