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Five Wildcats earn Freshman All-America honors

The postseason accolades keep rolling in for Kentucky Football.

Today, five of the youngest Wildcats from the 2022 season earned national recognition for excelling in their true freshman seasons. We’ll start with the two that earned Freshman All-American honors here in our own building. On3 named Barion Brown and Deone Walker to its 22-man Freshman All-America Team.

Here’s what our colleague Charles Power said about each Kentucky rookie:

BARION BROWN – KENTUCKY

Barion Brown looked like one of the more electric pass-catchers in the SEC as a true freshman at saw the 6-foot-1, 166-pounder make steady progress as a receiver as he continued to assimilate to the Kentucky offense.