Kentucky Wildcats Football: Sizing up the needs in the 2013 recruiting class
By Kyle
Wide Receiver
The roster will lose four receivers this year when Aaron Boyd, EJ Fields, Gene McCaskill, and LaRod King graduate. Brian Adam’s decision to leave the team further hurts the position, and now Kentucky will likely come out of the 2012 season with only six scholarship receivers on the roster (Collins, Robinson, Cobbins, Cunningham, Sweat, and Legree). To effectively use multiple receiver sets, the team really needs at least eight receivers. To have adequate depth, four more players would be ideal.
Needs: 4
Tight End
Kentucky has really struggled to bring in a difference making tight end over the past few seasons and now the roster has a logjam of bodies at the position, but without a clear cut leader for the starting gig. The junior quadruplets of Jordan Aumiller, Tyler Robinson, Anthony Kendrick, and converted defensive end Patrick Ligon will have only one year of eligibility left after the 2012 season and the only other scholarship tight end is upcoming sophomore Ronnie Shields. As silly as it might seem to have more than five scholarship tight ends on the roster, graduating four players at the position next season means that the staff needs to add at least two more players at the position and at least on of them needs to be ready to play very early in his career.
Needs: 2