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ChrisWestry
- position Cornerback
- height 6-4
- Weight 197
- class Senior
- Hometown Orange Park, Fla.
- High school Oakleaf
Career
- Never missed a game in his four-year career
- Saw action in all 51 games with 34 starts
- Totaled 134 tackles, 3.5 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 15 PBUs, three INTs, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and one QBH
- Helped the senior class win 29 games over the last four seasons, the second-most of any senior class since freshmen became eligible in 1972, trailing on the 2009 class with 30 wins
2018 – Senior
- Played in all 13 games
- Has 21 tackles, a sack and two PBU in 13 games
- Got his first sack of the season in the Senior Day win over MTSU
- Recorded a season-high five tackles in his first starting assignment of the season vs. Georgia
2017 – Junior
- Saw action in all 13 games with eight starts
- Totaled 34 tackles with two PBUs
- Recorded a season-high five tackles at Mississippi State and again vs. Louisville
- Forced a fumble at Southern Miss
2016 – Sophomore
- Has three career interceptions after grabbing one in 2016 vs. Austin Peay
- Racked up a career-high seven tackles in the win over Mississippi State
- Had a career-best two PBUs vs. NMSU
2015 – Freshman
- Named Third-Team Athlon Sports Freshman All- America
- Tabbed to the SEC All-Freshman Team by the league coaches
- Started all 12 games at cornerback as a true freshman
- Broke up a team-leading eight passes, finishing with 36 tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss, one sack and two interceptions, adding a QB hurry
- Picked off his first career pass to clinch UK’s win at South Carolina, adding a key pass break-up, sack and QB hurry
- Was named SEC Freshman of the Week after his performance at South Carolina
- Broke up at least one pass in eight games
- Snapped Dak Prescott’s streak of 289 passes without an interception at Mississippi State, keeping UK quarterback Andre’ Woodson the SEC record-holder in that category
High School
- Three-star recruit by Rivals, Scout, 247Sports.com and ESPN
- Evaluated as a safety in high school, he also could play cornerback in college
- Scout ranks him the 17th-best safety in the state of Florida
- Had 34 total tackles his senior season with one interception and 12 passes defended
- Blocked two field goals his senior season
- Named Times-Union’s 2014 All-First Coast honorable mention
- A Super 24 selection
- Three-year starter in the defensive backfield
- Helped team to the district championship as a senior
- Coached by Derek Chipoletti
- Two-year member of the track team
- Picked Kentucky over offers from Auburn, Florida, South Florida, UCF, FIU, Ohio and Charlotte
Personal
- Born in Orange Park, Fla.
- Son of Tera Horne and Samuel Westry
- Major is media arts studies with a minor in photography
Community Cats
- Stayed after practice to spend time with the Special Olympics (2015)
Chris Says
- His nickname is “Scotty Too Hotty”
- Other than playing in the NFL, his dream job is to work for Google
- One word to describe him on the field is “determined”
- His favorite part of game day is running out of the tunnel because it’s the beginning of something special
- Most people don’t know has over 300 photographs covering a wall in his room of people he cares about in his life