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“I think Jager is special.” UK’s two NFL linemen preview the future.

Former Kentucky offensive linemen Drake Jackson and Landon Young will land on NFL rosters at some point this upcoming weekend, hopefully as drafted players on Saturday. With a combined 96 games between them on the Big Blue Wall, the two Kentucky natives leave behind decorated careers as All-SEC football stars, but they leave the homegrown legacy in good hands with Jager Burton, a four-star offensive lineman out of Lexington who enrolled this past January.

“I think Jager is special,” Drake Jackson told KSR last week. “I’ve worked with him since he was maybe a sophomore in high school, and I could tell early on that he was special.