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‘Now the only question is how high.’ Stoops discusses UK linebacker’s rising draft status.

On a wall in Mark Stoops’ office is a large mural with all of the first-round NFL Draft picks he’s coached at various stops during his coaching career.

The Kentucky coach is going to need to make room on it for Josh Allen in a few months. Kentucky’s senior linebacker has had a monster season with 56 tackles, 14.5 for loss and 10 sacks.

He’s second in the country in sacks and leads the Southeastern Conference and is tied for fourth in the country in tackles for loss.

Allen, a former two-star recruit from Montclair, N.