When L’Damian Washington showed up in Lexington, the wide receiver room was a question mark wrapped in an “or.”
Daikiel Shorts Jr. had left for Nebraska after one season. Hometown star Dane Key followed him to Lincoln. Mark Stoops was still the head coach, but even he admitted before the year that there was no obvious WR1 and very little separation anywhere on the depth chart.
“I wouldn’t put any ‘or’ in there that I didn’t believe could go out and play winning football,” Stoops said at the time. “Sometimes it’s a rotational thing… no clear separation.