Kentucky is trying to create a pipeline between itself and one of the premier high school football programs from the state of Michigan.
Jalen Thompson, a class of 2023 4-star defensive lineman, is the latest high-profile recruit to come out of Detroit’s Cass Technical, which has produced two noteworthy Wildcats in recent years: soon-to-be fifth-year senior linebacker DeAndre Square (class of 2018) and incoming freshman defensive lineman Deone Walker (class of 2022).
Kentucky initially offered Thompson all the way back in Feb. 2021, the very first Divison I school to do so.