Back on Oct. 20, a source confirmed to Kentucky Sports Radio that UK freshman linebacker Shawn’Kel Knight Goff was leaving the program, with rumblings circulating that a transfer to Louisville was on the horizon.
The very next day, though, Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops said in his weekly press conference that the former three-star prospect was quitting the game of football altogether.
“Shawn’Kel checked out a couple, maybe, oh, two or three weeks ago or so,” Stoops said. “Told me he was very much not interested in playing football anymore. He said he lost the motivation and the desire to play the game.