The 2022 Kentucky football season is rapidly approaching, now only 59 days away from kickoff. One of the greatest defenders in school history, Wesley Woodyard, did not wear No. 59 at Kentucky, but he did throughout the majority of his 12-year NFL career.
Wesley Woodyard was a foundational piece to Rich Brooks’ Kentucky football transformation in the mid-00s. The LaGrange, Ga. product started almost immediately, thanks to a conversation Woodyard recently revisited.
“I’ll never forget the first game of my freshman year. We were playing Louisville and got beat like 49-0.