Kentucky high school quarterback considered a top-50 recruit in the country
Two in-state juniors are among the best high school players in the country, according to 247Sports.
Gavin Wimsatt, a quarterback at Owensboro High School, and Dane Key, a wide receiver at Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington, are ranked in the latest edition of the recruiting services’ top 250 rankings for the 2022 class.
To call Wimsatt a rising star would be an understatement. He was unranked in the last edition of the top 250 and now is considered the No. 37 overall recruit in the class, the No. 2 dual-threat quarterback in the country and the No. 1 player in the state. He boasts nearly a dozen offers, among them Kentucky, Louisville, TCU, Virginia Tech and West Virginia.
UK was the first Power Five program to offer Wimsatt. A flurry of programs soon followed the Wildcats’ lead.
“I didn’t think I was going to blow up this early. I didn’t think I was going to get this many offers,” Wimsatt told the Herald-Leader’s Mark Story last month. “I felt like I would get offers, but not this many this early.”
Wimsatt is the highest-ranked in-state quarterback since Drew Barker, who finished as the No. 110 overall recruit in the class of 2014 in 247Sports’ rankings.
Key, the son of former UK star Donte Key, has a list of offers that includes UK, Louisville, Oregon, Tennessee and Purdue. He fell out of the top 200 in the latest rankings but clocked in a No. 223 overall and as the 28th best receiver available in the class.
Rivals, a competing service, has not yet shared ratings for Key or Wimsatt.
Kentucky is still attempting to land a major in-state recruit as part of the 2021 recruiting cycle. Jager Burton, an offensive lineman and high school teammate of Key’s, is rated as the No. 60 overall player in the class and the No. 3 offensive guard.
Click here for the complete 247Sports rankings released Wednesday.
This story was originally published July 15, 2020 at 12:42 PM.
