Chad Scott was wearing his royal blue Kentucky garb during the spring of 2015 when he visited Apopka High School in the northern Orlando suburbs to check on a couple of prospects in his central Florida recruiting area. Catching his eye beyond the older guys were a couple of raw, ninth-grade offensive linemen.
"Coach, who are those kids?" he asked head coach Rick Darlington, nodding toward William Barnes and Ed Montilus.
Both were well over six-feet tall and nearing the 300-pound range even at that young age.
"What stood out to me was their size and athleticism, the way they moved and their coordination," Scott says.