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One-handed catches? Scoops and scores? UK transfer might just be getting started. | Lexington Herald Leader

It was at a preseason scrimmage or maybe the season opener that Bill Greene first saw Ahmad Wagner play.

Wagner then was a 6-foot-4 senior basketball star who was playing his first season of football for Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio.

“He was so raw,” recalled Greene, a Scout.com analyst and recruiting guru for that state. “He didn’t know what he was doing, but at 6-4, 220 pounds, he could really run.”

Fast forward to the state championship game just a few months later and Greene saw much more than a big, fast player.