LEXINGTON — It started in high school with memorizing wide receivers’ routes. Maybe just one for any given game.
Talent could take Keidron Smith a pretty long way in those days — to three-star cornerback status and a scholarship to Ole Miss — and so he didn’t need much more than that. In time, he came to crave it.
Fast forward to this fall, and Smith is finishing his college football career at Kentucky. He’s a fifth-year senior and a certified film-room fiend. The film study he used to do in passing has become a passion.