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How will UK replace its all-time leading scorer? A look inside the kicking battle.

Miles Butler has been around Kentucky football a long, long time.

So long, in fact, that teammates couldn’t help but crack a few jokes when the former Paducah Tilghman kicker was put on scholarship this week along with two other walk-ons.

“I’m the old guy,” Butler said. “So the joke they were making was that my new scholarship check is really just a social security check.”

Butler, who has been a part of the team since the 2014 season, knows that there are hundreds of football statistics to track and analytics to utilize. But ultimately it’s the points that count.