Spence is one of the best defensive linemen Kentucky will see all season; equally as good as, if not better than, Florida’s Jonathan Bullard, Tennessee’s Derek Barnett, Mississippi State’s Chris Jones and Auburn’s Carl Lawson and Montravious Adams. There isn’t a team in the Southeastern Conference that wouldn’t take Spence today, and start him tomorrow.
So why is he in Richmond?
Short answer: Ecstasy.
Spence openly admits he had an addiction to the psychoactive drug while at Ohio State, where he started 13 games at defensive end in 2013, before he was suspended for a failed drug test prior to the Orange Bowl.