Four Wildcats Invited to NFL Scouting Combine
Four University of Kentucky football players – Eli Cox, Maxwell Hairston, Jamon Dumas-Johnson and Deone Walker, have received invitations for the 2025 National Football League Scouting Combine scheduled for February 27 – March 2 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
NFL Scouting Combine Live Drills begins Thursday, February 27, with exclusive live coverage on NFL Network starting at 3 p.m. ET. The full lineup is as follows:
- Thursday, Feb 27– DL, LB drills start at 3 p.m. ET (Walker, Dumas-Johnson)
- Friday, Feb 28– DB, TE drills start at 3 p.m. ET (Hairston)
- Saturday, March 1– QB, WR, RB drills start at 1 p.m. ET
- Sunday, March 2 – OL drills start at 1 p.m. ET (Cox)
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- Kentucky has had at least four players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine five straight seasons and six of the last seven.
- A total of 47 players have been invited to the Combine since head coach Mark Stoops’ arrival in 2013 and 38 players since 2019.
- The Wildcats are looking to have multiple players drafted for the seventh straight year.
- In 2024, four players (DB Andru Phillips, ILB Trevin Wallace, RB Ray Davis, QB Devin Leary) were drafted.
- In 2023, three players (QB Will Levis, RB Chris Rodriguez Jr. and DB Carrington Valentine) were chosen.
- In 2022, UK had four players (WR Wan’Dale Robinson, DL Joshua Paschal, OL Luke Fortner and OL Darian Kinnard) selected.
- In 2021, six players (LB Jamin Davis, DB Kelvin Joseph, DL Quinton Bohanna, DB Brandin Echols, OL Landon Young and DL Phil Hoskins) were selected, which tied for the fourth-most in school history and the most since 1979 (eight).
- In 2020, two players (WR Lynn Bowden Jr. and OL Logan Stenberg) were drafted.
- In 2019, UK had five NFL draft picks in LB Josh Allen, DB Lonnie Johnson Jr., DB Mike Edwards, RB Benny Snell Jr. and OL George Asafo-Adjei.
- The NFL Draft is scheduled for April 24-26 on Lambeau Field and Titletown campus in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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