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Dane Key is Kentucky’s Top-Ranked Rising Junior and is Getting Interest From Ohio State, Te’Sean Smoot Building Relationships with Buckeyes

The Hurry-Up is your nightly dose of updates from the Ohio State football recruiting trail, keeping tabs on the latest from commits and targets from around the country.

Key, Kentucky's No. 1 rising junior, is receiving

The chorus of Nelly’s 2004 hit “Heart of a Champion” echoes throughout Frederick Douglass High School’s football stadium in Lexington, Kentucky on Monday morning – an early 8 a.m. wakeup call and throwback pump-up song serving as the background to kickstart the Broncos’ second week of summer workouts.

The song is an appropriate tone-setter because at the same time as the words “ain’t no way they can stop me now” kick in, Fredrick Douglass head coach Nathan McPeek is detailing one of the most impressive single plays from his squad’s 2019 season – one in which it fell a touchdown short of a state championship in the state’s second-highest level of competition (Class 5A).