One of the top high school football players in America has a legitimate connection to Kentucky Football, but he’s not hearing from the Wildcat program as much as he and his family would prefer.
Lebbeus Overton, a five-star class of 2023 defensive lineman out of Milton, GA, is widely considered as one of the five best high school junior football players in the nation. Kentucky, which is where Overton’s mother, Eunice Thomas, starred as a Volleyball player in the ’90s, was one of the 12 programs to crack his list of top schools back in the summer.