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2019 NFL Draft: Five Kentucky Wildcats selected, including one in each of first four rounds

When former Winton Woods High School standout Mike Edwards, a safety from the Kentucky Wildcats, was selected Friday night by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round with the 99th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, it meant a Wildcat had been drafted in each of the first three rounds.

Make that first four - after the Pittsburgh Steelers took running back Benny Snell in the fourth round on Saturday.

In Thursday's first round, linebacker Josh Allen was selected seventh overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars - the highest a UK player has been drafted since the New York Jets made defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson the fourth pick of the 2003 draft.