Kentucky football’s 2022 recruiting class made an immediate impact right out of the gate. On offense, Dane Key, Barion Brown, and Josh Kattus were hauling in touchdowns, recording highlight play after highlight play, and even dishing out some fundamentally sound blocks — and that was under former offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello. Who knows what those three will be able to do as true sophomores under the mind of Liam Coen — you know, the guy who initially recruited them to Lexington in the first place.
But it was on the defensive side of the ball where Kentucky found just as many diamonds in a mine that wound up being chock-full of them.