Alex Afari Jr.

Yeah, I'm expecting, like, defense just to kind of – I mean, show us more of what we, you know, can do.

Like you said, Alex Afari, like, you know, Grant Godfrey, like Ty Brown.

I want to see a Ty Brown pick six.

Like, I want to see something just absolutely electrifying.

We don't know what we're going to get from the quarterback position on Saturday, but it would be cool to see the defensive line pad their stats a little bit.

And also, just to see Alex Afari get a little bit more comfortable.

We talked to him today, Adam Luckett, after practice for the first time since he rejoined the team.

And he admitted that he was a little rusty, overran a play and got popped pretty good on that first snap and then kind of settled in.

What chances do you give Kentucky tomorrow? It's going to be a tough road environment.

Maybe Alex Afari plays.

They've been trying to ramp him back up and get him ready.

No, he will play.

But, you know, for better or for worse, they've got to work through it, right? Yeah.

So I'm sure they've got enough money and they'll be fine.

I had a couple of people I saw asking us, like, how is Alex Afari able to be eligible? Yet yesterday it was announced that the two LSU football players are not eligible for the rest of the year.

That came out yesterday.

I do want to take some calls, but before we do that, Shannon, the Will Stein show was last night.

He said both Alex Afari and Terine Nichols are going to be good to go for Texas A&M.

That's an encouraging sign.

That's good to hear.

Yeah, I don't know why Alex Afari wasn't ready to go against Bama.

I don't know if it was we had to get him up to date on our plays or what the situation was.

I know he had to temporarily go away from practice because of the court rulings.

get him back? I don't...

Yeah, who knows? Between him and Alex Afari, I don't want anybody to get their hopes up because Stein essentially said Nichols was good all last week, and then game day, not good.

So that could happen for three more weeks.

He could go out and play Saturday and have two picks.

Get this, Kentucky returns six defensive starters and 16 defensive letter winners on this team.

Alex Afari sitting on 193 career tackles.

McQueen's Humphrey Grace has 18 and a half career sacks across his college stops.

But Kentucky's not just throwing 11 random dudes into the fire against Alabama.

My guess is that Kentucky was holding a lot of things back schematically in week one against Youngstown State.

More freedom with Alex Afari here as well.

This is really good news, and the market tells us that nobody's freaking out yet.

FanDuel has Kentucky as a 10.5-point underdog.