Seven Kentucky football players named preseason All-SEC by coaches
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Scouting the 2020 Wildcats
Josh Moore, the University of Kentucky football beat writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com, is examining the 2020 Wildcats position by position entering the season, which kicks off Sept. 26 at Auburn. Click below to read Josh’s stories published so far.
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Coaches across the Southeastern Conference are high on Kentucky this season.
That’s at least the indication from their preseason All-SEC teams, to which seven Wildcats were named. That included three first-team picks in offensive lineman Darian Kinnard, center Drake Jackson and punter Max Duffy.
Kinnard started all 13 games at right tackle for UK as a sophomore last year, finishing with 32 knockdowns and committing only penalty in 706 snaps. Jackson, a center out of Woodford County High School, has started 33 consecutive games at center for the team. Duffy was the 2019 winner of the Ray Guy Award, given annually to the nation’s best punter.
Landon Young, another offensive lineman, was named to the second-team offense. Young, a former Lafayette High School star, started every game at left tackle last year after missing the 2018 season with a knee injury.
Defensive end Josh Paschal, outside linebacker Jamar “Boogie” Watson and safety Yusuf Corker were named to the third-team defense.
Paschal played most of last season as an outside linebacker after sitting out most of the previous season because of surgery to remove a melanoma from one of his feet. Watson led the team with 11.5 tackles for loss and seven quarterback hurries last season. Yusuf Corker started all 13 games last year and led the program with 74 tackles.
Alabama had eight players named to the coaches’ preseason All-SEC First Team and led the league with 11 selections overall. Georgia had 10 selections, followed by Auburn, Florida, LSU and Texas A&M with eight. Kentucky and Tennessee were next up with seven apiece.
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