Career
• Four-year letter winner
• Played in 44 career games with 26 starts
• Caught 38 passes for 505 yards and six touchdowns (13.3 yards per catch)
• One of 11 players in the FBS named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team (2025)
• Two-time Pop Warner College Football Award Finalist (2024 and 2025)
• Wuerffel Trophy semifinalist (2025)
• Campbell Trophy semifinalist (2025)
• Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List (2025)
• SEC Community Service Team (2024)
• A two-time Pop Warner College Football Award finalist (2024 and 2025)
• Named to UK’s prestigious Frank G. Ham Society of Character (2024)
• Elected one of four game captains in five games in 2025
• Dean’s List (Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2004, Fall 2022)
• Division I Academic All-District Team by CSC (2024)
• SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll (2023 and 2024)
• First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022)
• Represented UK Football on UK’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC)
• Member of the SEC Football Leadership Council
• Represented the SEC on the NCAA Football Oversight Committee’s Student-Athlete Connection Group

2025 – Senior
• One of 11 players in the FBS named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
• Pop Warner College Football Award Finalist
• Wuerffel Trophy semifinalist
• Campbell Trophy semifinalist
• Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year watch list
• Named one of four game captains vs. Toledo, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Tennessee Tech and Vanderbilt
• Started in 11 games played … Missed the final game vs. Louisville with injury
• Totaled 17 catches for 195 yards and two scores before suffering a season-ending injury at Vanderbilt
• Had one catch for 29 yards and a receiving TD at Georgia, his second of the season and sixth of his career … Also had a TD vs. Eastern Michigan
• Got a season-high-tying three catches for 22 yards vs. Texas
• Recorded his first career tackle at Auburn

2024 – Junior
• Saw action in 11 of UK’s 12 games with eight starts
• Did not play in the season opener with injury
• Totaled six catches for 77 yards and two scores this season
• Was Johnny-on-the-spot, recovering a fumble at the two-yard line and lunging in the end zone for UK’s game-winning touchdown at Ole Miss
• Got his first receiving touchdown of the season on a 27-yard play in the first quarter at Tennessee
• Caught a four-yard touchdown pass at No. 3 Texas
• Dean’s List (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
• Named to the 2024 Division I Academic All-District Team by CSC
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
• Named to SEC Community Service Team
• Finalist for the Pop Warner College Football Award
• Named to UK’s prestigious Frank G. Ham Society of Character

2023 – Sophomore
• Saw action in 11 games with three starts (vs. EKU, at Mississippi State and vs. Alabama) … Did not play in the Vanderbilt or Louisville game with injury
• Totaled eight receptions for 108 yards and two scores
• Caught a season-high tying two passes vs. Tennessee and Alabama
• Also caught two passes for 11 yards and a touchdown at No. 1 Georgia … Hauled in a four-yard score in the second quarter, his second career touchdown reception
• Had the first score of his career thanks to a six-yard touchdown reception on Kentucky’s first drive of the game vs. Akron … Also marked his first catch of the season … Combined for career-high-tying two catches for 24 yards and the lone touchdown in the game
• Dean’s List (Fall 2023)
• Named to SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll

2022 – Freshman
• Saw action in 11 games with three starts
• Missed the bowl game with injury
• Totaled seven catches for 125 yards, averaging 17.9 yards per reception
• Had at least one reception in his final four games
• Had two receptions for a career-high 76 yards in the win over Louisville … Had a career-long, 70-yard catch on Kentucky’s second drive of the game, setting the Wildcats up for their first touchdown of the game
• Got his first collegiate start and playing time at Florida … Also started vs. Mississippi State and against Louisville
• Dean’s list (Fall 2022)

High School
• A three-star recruit who ranks as a top 50 tight end nationally by Rivals
• Ranked as the No. 26 recruit in Ohio by Rivals and No. 30 by 247Sports
• Had 42 catches for 553 yards and one score for head coach Mark Elder at Archbishop Moeller High School in 2021
• Helped the Crusaders win the Division 1 Region and finish in the state semifinals
• Two-time Greater Catholic League (GCL) Tight End of the Year
• Two-time All-GCL First Team member
• Two-time All-City and All-Region First Team
• OHSAA Division 1 First-Team All-State
• Named Max Preps Division 1 First-Team All-State
• Earned Southwest Ohio Football Coaches Association All-City Division 1 First Team
• In eight games in an abbreviated COVID-19 season in 2020, he had 23 catches for 288 yards and four touchdowns
• Reunites with former Moeller standouts at UK, tight end Brenden Bates and defensive back Carrington Valentine
• Also a three-year letter winner as a power forward in basketball
• Chose UK over Michigan, Northwestern, Louisville and Cincinnati

Community Cats
• Volunteered to participate in the “Dancing with the Lexington Stars” event in 2024 and 2025  … In 2024, he helped raise more than $34K for the Lexington Rotary Club Endowment Fund and Surgery on Sunday, a nonprofit that provides essential outpatient procedures at no cost to income-eligible individuals who are either uninsured or under-insured and do not qualify for federal or state assistance. In 2025, he helped raise close to $11K for Baby Health Services and the Rotary Club of Lexington’s scholarship and service initiatives. Baby Health Services provides free, quality preventative and primary healthcare to the uninsured children of Central Kentucky from birth through age 18. He and partner Allison Fliehman tied with Whittney Allen for the Judge’s Champion Award.
• Volunteered at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital, visiting with the kids and playing games each week (2022-25)
• Spearheaded a shoe drive to benefit Camp Horsin’ Around, a local nonprofit that enriches the lives of children whose health is compromised or who have special needs by collaborating with organized groups to provide an outdoor camp adventure (2025)
• Volunteered at Lexington’s Ronald McDonald House, packing meals and writing Get Well cards for the patients (2023-24)
• Volunteered at the Scott County Humane Society, helping find foster homes and raising awareness of fostering … Helped the Scott County Humane Society double their adoption rate since he started volunteering (2023-25)
Volunteered for the My New Kentucky Home, helping make postcards for kids (2023)

Personal
• Name is pronounced Josh “KAT-us”
• Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Son of Lisa and Eric Kattus
• Has two younger brothers, Tucker and Justin
• Justin is also a tight end for the Wildcats, while Tucker is an offensive lineman at Clemson
• Dad, Eric Kattus, was a tight end at Michigan from 1982-85 and went on to a seven-year career in the NFL, playing six years with the Cincinnati Bengals and one with the New York Jets
• Represented UK Football on UK’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC)
• Member of the SEC Football Leadership Council
• Represented the SEC on the NCAA Football Oversight Committee’s Student-Athlete Connection Group
• Graduated in December of ’25 with a degree in communication and an undergraduate certificate in business

Josh Says

• Nickname is “Big Katt”
• He chose Kentucky because he loved the coaching staff and it felt like home
• One thing most people don’t know about him is that he is a great pickleball player
• Three words to describe him are enthusiastic, leader and loyal
• The best advice he’s ever received is “work hard even when no one is watching”