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Preseason Kentucky football awards: MVP, breakout candidates and more

UK football head coach Mark Stoops takes questions at the UK Luncheon event Wednesday at the downtown Louisville Marriott. Alton Strupp, Louisville Courier Journal

LEXINGTON, Ky. In advance of UK's season, let's make a few predictions at what's to come for the Wildcats in 2018. Who are the MVPs? Newcomers to watch? Agree? Disagree?

Offensive MVP

Benny Snell, RB, junior: Did you really expect someone else? Snell has already staged an assault on the Kentucky record book as the first player in program history to rush for at least 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons and could become the program’s all-time leading rusher with 1,411 yards this season.