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Kentucky eyes WR Dangerfield as 2013 addition

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Signing Day is two months behind us but Kentucky didn't fill all of their spots and that has given the Wildcats the freedom to continue to evaluate a few potential late additions.

Wide receiver is one position where Kentucky has had their struggles in the spring and the Cats are putting out feelers to junior college wide receivers in the hopes of finding a good fit.

Jared Dangerfield is a 6-foot-3, 200-pound receiver currently at Fort Scott C.C. in Kansas and he's one of the receivers the Cats are taking a serious look at. Dangerfield runs the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds and while he didn't sign with any school in February he had offers from Baylor, Iowa State, Middle Tennessee, South Alabama, FAU, Louisiana Tech and Northern Illinois.

As a high school senior at Royal Palm Beach (Fla.) in the Class of 2010, Dangerfield was a 6-foot-3, 172-pound prospect that had drawn interest from UCF and others.

Kentucky's coaches knew about Dangerfield before they were even in Lexington.

"I didn't sign yet," Dangerfield said in a recent interview. "I'm waiting 'til May. I still have a few schools wanting me and more schools are coming in the picture now. More will come out this spring.

"Kentucky is one of them. I talked to them the other day and they're very interested and looking for a receiver. (Neal Brown) loves my film and he needs a big play wide receiver like me. He was recruiting me when he was at Texas Tech."

Brown is one of the main reasons Dangerfield would take an offer from Kentucky very seriously.

"I feel he is an excellent coach. I love their offense. I can see myself in their offense and playing for coach Brown and coach (Tommy) Mainord," he said.

Dangerfield took an official visit to Louisiana Tech before Signing Day but has four official visits remaining.

Kentucky, East Carolina, FAU, Middle Tennessee and South Alabama are the schools showing the most interest right now.

"Middle Tennessee was (the favorite) but that's before Kentucky and ECU got into the picture," he said. I was pretty close to (committing) with Middle Tennessee but my recruiting is still open."

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