What we learned from two days at Kentucky football
The calendar has turned to August, but there is still much work to be done before Kentucky football opens its 2025 season against Toledo at the end of the month.
So, it would be foolish to read too much into how the team looked in back-to-back practices open to reporters. Those practices, including Saturday’s annual Fan Day festivities, were just the third and fourth of preseason camp. They were the first the team conducted in shoulder pads.
The look at the team did at least give an idea of where things stand entering camp though. With the large caveat that much will change over the next three weeks, here is a look at what stood out after two days viewing the 2025 Wildcats up close.
Kentucky coach Mark Stoops has acknowledged that Incarnate Word transfer Zach Calzada would be the starting quarterback if the season opened tomorrow — and Calzada took the vast majority of the first-team reps in the two open practices — but he continues to insist backup redshirt freshman Cutter Boley will have a chance to seize the job. That talk looked like ego management during spring practices open to reporters, but Boley looked much better this week.
Stoops pointed to two plays in Saturday’s Fan Day practice as an example of that growth.
