When he was a high school recruit, Kentucky had a sort of double coverage on Marquan McCall.
When he wasn’t getting calls from offensive line coach John Schlarman, he was getting messages from defensive line coach Derrick LeBlanc.
“They’d both call me and try to persuade me,” said the four-star freshman from Detroit’s Oak Park High School.
For a while, UK’s coaches weren’t sure on which side of the ball the 6-foot-3, 368-pound freshman was going to end up, but they knew that they needed to make sure he was on a Kentucky line.