Last year Quinton Bohanna defied norms as a freshman by working his way into a starting position as Kentucky’s nose guard. This year Kentucky has another freshman nose guard that’s talented enough to break tradition, Marquan McCall.
A four-star prospect from Oak Park, Michigan, McCall was a consensus Top 200 player and considered by many as the best prospect in the state of Michigan. McCall earned the praise for his play on the offensive line. Kentucky’s coaches saw a nose guard, not an offensive guard.
“Marquan played offensive line, and I saw a defensive lineman in him,” Defensive line coach Derrick LeBlanc told KSR.