Throughout his Kentucky career, when Lynn Bowden made a request to Mark Stoops, the athlete delivered.
In a 2018 road trip to Missouri, he asked Stoops to let him return a punt. Bowden turned it into a touchdown that sparked an improbable comeback victory. When Terry Wilson and Sawyer Smith suffered injuries, Bowden asked Stoops to let him play quarterback. Record books were rewritten. On his final play as Kentucky’s signal-caller, Bowden had one final request for Coach Stoops.
“Throw a jump ball to Ahmad,” Bowden said on the sideline after Virginia Tech called a timeout. “Literally my words, I was begging ’em.