“Definitely needed the rest for quite a few of our players, so that was a good thing,” Mark Stoops said at his weekly press conference.
Jordan Griffin probably benefited most from the Saturday off the football field. Kentucky’s most experienced player in the secondary suffered an injury prior to the Mississippi State game. He played a few snaps in each of the road games, but the nagging lower body injury prevented him making any significant contributions.
“Jordan is better. Jordan was out there last week and looks pretty close to 100 percent,” Stoops said. Griffin was listed on the depth chart as the No.