Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops talks to the media after his team’s first day of spring practice on Monday, March 4, 2019. The Wildcats must replace several experienced players from last year’s 10-3 team that won the Citrus Bowl. By
Due to near-freezing temperatures, Kentucky’s spring football practice started inside Tuesday morning. Head coach Mark Stoops moved it outside midstream, but not because the weather drastically improved.
Two players — Lynn Bowden and Kavosiey Smoke — got “banged up” in Nutter Field House. Smoke, a redshirt freshman expected to bolster UK’s running back corps this fall, couldn’t finish practice after planting a foot and going down to the turf.