That first block, the defender must have been talking some smack. He shoved the guy back and to the ground, then he pounced on him.
All of us can be confident that Goodwin has the size, athletic tools, and work ethic to become one of the better offensive linemen UK has signed in some time. I also have high expectations for Grant Bingham. Both commitments are firm.
The question is how Coach Stoops will finish off his 2022 OL class after Goodwin and Bingham.
Here is UK's current OL roster. Again, we need to keep in mind that the NCAA did not dock players a year of eligibility for playing football in 2020, so most of these players can have an extra year of eligibility later if they want it.
Luke Fortner, OG- Sr
Austin Dotson, OG- Sr
Naasir Watkins, OT- Sr
Darian Kinnard, OT- Sr
Quintin Wilson, C- Jr
Jeremy Flax, OT- Jr
Kenneth Horsey, OG- Jr
Nick Lewis, OT- Jr
Eli Cox, OG/C- So
Jake Pope, OT- So
Deonte Buford, OT/OG- Fr
John Young, OT/OG- Fr
RJ Adams, OG- Fr
Jager Burton, OG- Fr
David Wohlabaugh, OT- Fr
Paul Rodriguez, OT/OG- Fr
It is a safe bet that 2-3 of UK's 2021 OL starters (depending on whether Dotson starts) could be gone in 2022.
Publicly available reports tell us that UK has at least 35 scholarship offers on the table to uncommitted hs OL prospects. This does not count a similar number of UK scholarship offers to hs prospects who have verbally committed elsewhere, but can still decommit. In a recent post on this thread, I named uncommitted hs OL prospects who seem most likely to end up in UK's 2022 class. Over time, some of this will change.
I will construct another list of possibilities at the conclusion of this post. I am not predicting these names will end up in UK's class. Most of them will not. But we are recruiting them, and they have various degrees of positive interest in UK.
The December signing date is more than seven months away. UK's new OL coach Eric Wolford is a good recruiter with contacts in OH, FL, GA, and the Carolinas. There is still plenty of time over the upcoming summer for new recruiting relationships to form. By the end of the 2022 recruiting process, I still think Coach Stoops would like to sign five new OL prospects if he can get the guys he wants. That number could decrease to four if enough of our current freshmen and sophomores make a lot of progress this year under Coach Wolford's supervision, although I expect Wolford to push for five signings so that he can work with as many of his own recruits as possible.
Some uncommitted OL possibilities for UK. I am not saying whether or not each and every offer is committable. Inevitably, some aren't. None of us knows that at any given time. But some of these names could end up in UK's class and one or more probably will.
Fisher Anderson, Franklin, TN
Ryan Baer, Eastlake, OH
Drew Bobo, Columbia, SC
Vince Carpenter, Red Bank, NJ
Keylen Davis, Indianapolis, IN
Derrell Johnson, Jacksonville, FL
Ka'Marii Landers, Dearborn, MI
Grayson Morgan, Nashville, TN
Jackson Pruitt, Detroit, MI
Daughtry Richardson, Miami, FL
Aamil Wagner, Dayton, OH
Deone Walker, Detroit, MI
Desaun Williams, Colonial Heights, VA
Antavious Woody, Lafayette, AL
Our coaching staff has earned our trust. We need to keep in mind what our coaches accomplished with development of UK All American offensive linemen Bunchy Stallings and Logan Stenberg, both of whom were very lightly recruited coming out of hs. Pittsburgh Steeler Calvin Taylor, originally signed by UK for our OL, was hardly recruited at all.
