On the eve of college football’s national signing day, Kentucky appears to have a real chance to land both of its top two remaining targets in the class of 2018.
Four-star linebacker Chris Oats has been at the top of UK’s board for weeks — the Cats have been recruiting him for well over a year — and his change of plans over the weekend suggests that Kentucky is the likely landing spot.
Oats — a 6-foot-4 prospect from Cincinnati — took an unofficial visit to Lexington this past weekend instead of his previously planned official visit to Ohio State, which had ramped up its recruitment of the in-state linebacker in recent weeks.