Today, Kentucky released a preliminary depth chart which is very interesting due to the surprising number of freshmen in backup positions. The offense seems to have 4 true freshmen as depth, and the defense apparently has 2.
The most notable freshman is Josh Clemons, who has moved ahead of CoShik Williams and Jonathan George as the second running back behind Raymond Sanders. We had been hearing a lot about Clemons, and I'm excited to see him move up so quickly.
Here is the offense (note the official release isn't out yet, so I've cobbled this together from other sources, subject to revision):
Offense | ||||
Offensive line | ||||
LT | LG | C | RG | RT |
Chandler Burden | Stuart Hines | Matt Smith | Larry Warford | Billy Joe Murphy |
Darrian Miller* | Kevin Mitchell | Jake Lanefski | Trevino Woods | T. Eatmon-Nared* |
Receiving Corps | ||||
TE | WR | WR | WR | |
Jordan Aumiller | La'Rod King | Matt Roark |
Gene McCaskill |
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Tyler Robinson | E.J. Fields |
Brian Adams |
Demarco Robinson* |
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Backfield | ||||
QB | FB | TB | ||
Morgan Newton | D.J. Warren | Raymond Sanders | ||
Maxwell Smith* | Cody Jones | Josh Clemons* |
The "*" denotes a true freshman, and the"#" denotes a redshirt freshman.
Now, for the defense:
Defense | ||||
Defensive Line | ||||
DE | DT | DT | DE | |
Collins Ukwu | Luke McDermott | Donte Rumph | Taylor Wyndham | |
Antwane Glenn | Mister Cobble | Tristan Johnson | Mike Douglas# | |
Linebacking Corps | ||||
SAM | MIKE | WILL | ||
Ridge Wilson | Ronnie Snead | Danny Trevathan | ||
Alvin Dupree* | Avery Williamson | Malcom McDuffen# | ||
Defensive Backfield | ||||
CB | CB | S | S | FS |
Anthony Mosley | Randall Burden | Winston Guy | Martavious Neloms | Taiedo Smith |
Cartier Rice | Dale Trimble# | Miles Simpson# | Ashley Lowrey* | |
Special teams are as follows:
Special teams | ||||
K | P | LS | KR | PR |
Craig McIntosh | Ryan Tydlacka | Jon Thomas | Winston Guy | Randall Burden |
Joe Mansour | Joe Mansour | Raymond Sanders | Demarco Robinson* | |
CoShik Williams | ||||
Demarco Robinson* |
Additionally, the word is that the following people will not start for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers game:
Joker Phillips says LG Stuart Hines, C Matt Smith, S Taiedo Smith will play, won't start vs. WKU.
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