LEXINGTON, Ky. — Sometimes, Dane Key admits, it’s a challenge to follow his father’s advice.
A freshman wide receiver on the Kentucky football team, Key is a second-generation Wildcat. His father, Donté Key, played linebacker and defensive end at UK from 1992-95. And the elder Key has told his youngest son to block out the buzz, put his head down and go to work.
But that buzz is considerable.
At SEC Media Days last month, Kentucky quarterback Will Levis called Key “a starter.” A product of Frederick Douglass High in Lexington, Key was a consensus four-star recruit who had offers from Oregon and South Carolina, among others.