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Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops expects Toledo to present his team a difficult challenge in the 2019 opener. Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal

LEXINGTON – The pass-catching tight end had gone missing. An NFL draft prospect, he was being used mostly as a blocker.

No, this was not the oft-repeated storyline for Kentucky football. It was the situation Wildcat tight ends coach Vince Marrow found himself in as a player at Toledo, Kentucky’s 2019 season-opening opponent.

Heading into an Oct. 1991 game against Ohio, then-Toledo coach Gary Pinkel decided his offense needed to find a way to get Marrow the ball more.