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Here’s why the NFL made UK remove Josh Allen banner from Nashville building

Highlights from University of Kentucky football linebacker Josh Allen's 2018 season. By

A giant banner celebrating Josh Allen and the Kentucky football program in downtown Nashville was taken down Thursday, reportedly at the request of the NFL as the first round of the NFL Draft is set to start.

The banner, featuring a stylized image of Allen’s back in a UK jersey flexing with the words “Recruit, Develop,” a UK football recruiting mantra, had been hung earlier this week on Moxy Downtown, a hotel soon to be open near Nashville’s Honky Tonk Row at 110 Third Avenue.