{"id":11544,"date":"2017-12-20T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:17:41","slug":"darian-kinnard-2018-kentucky-recruiting-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/12\/20\/darian-kinnard-2018-kentucky-recruiting-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Darian Kinnard 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Darian Kinnard 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile<\/h4>\n<p>The 2018 recruiting class for <strong>Kentucky<\/strong> is shaping up to be one of Mark Stoops&#8217; best ever. Currently sitting in the top 30 by both Rivals and 24\/7 Sports the Cats are loading up at a number of positions.<\/p>\n<p>One of those is on the offensive line and one of the biggest commits<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/content\/prospects\/2018\/darian-kinnard-183426\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is tackle Darian Kinnard. <\/a><\/strong> The six foot seven 315 pound Kinnard plays for traditional power <strong>St. Ignatius<\/strong> in Cleveland, Ohio. He chose Kentucky over offers from <strong>Boston College, Cincinnati, Iowa State<\/strong> and<strong> Pittsburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kinnard is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee but moved to Ohio before the 2015 season. The new Volunteer coaching staff is trying hard to flip Kinnard from the Cats.<\/p>\n<p>Kinnard rates as a four star player by both ESPN and 24\/7 and is the 21st best player in the state of Ohio. In addition to his high rating Kinnard has been selected to play in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usarmyallamericanbowl.com\/player\/darian-kinnard\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 U.S Army All-American Bowl. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honored to welcome 4\ufe0f\u20e3\u2b50\ufe0f Kentucky commit @DarianJoe to the 2018 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udfc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArmyBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ArmyBowl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmericasGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AmericasGame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BBN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoToWork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoToWork<\/a> \ud83d\ude3c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WV0b6ryCit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WV0b6ryCit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Navy All-American Bowl (@AABonNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AABonNBC\/status\/928774674758230016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kinnard is the first Kentucky player to play in the game since <strong>Kash Daniel, Drake Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Landon Young<\/strong> were all selected to the 2016 game.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Big Blue Nation can check out why the coaching staff is so high on Kinnard by watching his highlights.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out Darian Kinnard&#39;s End of season junior year on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hudl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Hudl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cB7yEuUJrC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/cB7yEuUJrC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hudl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#hudl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83d\udc8eDarian Kinnard\ud83d\udc8e (@Darian_70) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Darian_70\/status\/824696790020685824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not only do the Wildcats have four incoming linemen they also have Jackson and Young returning in 2018. This influx of players is going to keep offensive line coach <strong>John Schlarman<\/strong> happy for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for checking out the Darian Kinnard 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile here at <strong>Last<\/strong> <strong>Word On College Football.<\/strong> There will be updates throughout the day as Stoops gets more signatures in this early signing period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darian Kinnard 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile The 2018 recruiting class for Kentucky is shaping up to be one of Mark Stoops&#8217; best ever. Currently sitting in the top 30 by both Rivals and 24\/7 Sports the Cats are loading up at a number of positions. One of those is on the offensive line and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35579],"tags":[184,1407,2731,21,285,126,2732],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-kentucky-wildcats","tag-cfb","tag-college-football-recruiting","tag-darian-kinnard","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mark-stoops","tag-ncaa","tag-us-army-all-american-bowl"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78723,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/78723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}