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Film Room: La’Vell Wright

The virtual dice are starting to get hot for the University of Kentucky football program and for the first time since 2010, UK will have an in-state running back join the class. North Hardin High School has treated the Kentucky football program well in recent history and Wright will now be joining former teammate Octavious Oxendine in Lexington.

The mid three-star prospect is ranked as the No. 6 player in the state of Kentucky and has 13 Power Five offers to his name. In the end, he picked Kentucky over Tennessee, Purdue, West Virginia and a handful of others.