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How Kentucky Convinced Players to Sign in the 2019 Recruiting Class

Mark Stoops called in the Big Dog for a reinforcements a few times. Back in the spring, he sent Vince to the city of Louisville. He gave a pitch four highly-touted recruits — Jared Casey, J.J. Weaver, Shawnkel Knight-Goff and TaeTae Crumes — could not deny.

“Three of the top linebackers we took out of there were top guys in the country,” Marrow said. “I think they saw success of our linebacker group. A lot of people don’t know that we’ve been pretty good in the NFL for the last couple of years with linebacker play. It was just getting these guys here to come play in the best conference in the country and come play with the best school in the state.