It’s just hard to get a grasp on that right now because you can’t make campus visits,” Donte Key said.ĭane Key knows Kentucky redshirt freshman Beau Allen, a former Lexington Catholic quarterback, as well as true freshman quarterback Kaiya Sheron of Somerset. “Kentucky is on the list Dane is going to consider pretty heavy but there are other schools interesting to Dane and us. Coen reached out to Key not long after getting the UK job. Stoops fired offensive coordinator Eddie Gran and has brought in former NFL assistant coach Liam Coen to run more of a pro-style offense that could suit Key - and other receivers - a lot more. That’s one reason Wan’Dale Robinson originally signed with Nebraska but now has transferred to UK. The Cats have won but not with an offense that features big play receivers. Kentucky has not had a wide open offense in recent years. 222 player in the class of 2022 and the 30th best wide receiver in the nation. Key is a member of the ESPN300 and is ranked by 247Sports as the No. He caught 33 passes for 545 yards and eight touchdowns as a sophomore. I respect what they have done and the type of players they are getting.”īut … Dane Key also wants to catch the football in college like he’s done at Frederick Douglass. I was impressed with what they said and it made me feel more comfortable with them recruiting him. “I was still pretty upset about my older son’s situation. “When Vince (Marrow) and Mark (Stoops) started recruiting Dane, they brought me over and we sat down and talked like men,” Donte Key said. Notre Dame and Ohio State have not offered the 6-2, 175-pound Key but have shown a lot of interest.

The four-star recruit recently got an offer from Wisconsin to go with ones he already had from UK, Texas, West Virginia, Oregon, Arkansas, Louisville, Cincinnati, Georgia State, Kansas, Purdue, Maryland, Marshall, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Western Kentucky. He had 37 receptions for 625 yards and 11 scores in only nine games last season. He’s now preparing for the NFL draft.įrederick Douglass junior Dane Key is one of the state’s top players in the 2022 recruiting class.

Instead, he went to Western Kentucky and broke the FBS record for career tackles with 350, including 15 in a game against Liberty last season. Donte Key once told me Devon “grew up on Kentucky’s football field” but was not offered a chance to play for the Wildcats.

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