{"id":11578,"date":"2017-12-20T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:17:44","slug":"stanley-garner-2018-kentucky-recruiting-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/12\/20\/stanley-garner-2018-kentucky-recruiting-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Garner 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Stanley Garner 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile<\/h4>\n<p>Ever since coming to Lexington five years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/mark-stoops-2.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Stoops<\/a> has made recruiting\u00a0the state of Florida a priority. Using his time spent at both <strong>Florida State<\/strong> and <strong>Miami<\/strong> the Kentucky head coach has created a pipeline from the Sunshine State to Lexington. This year is no exception as seven of the 20 commits are from <strong>Florida<\/strong>. The most highly touted <a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/content\/prospects\/2018\/stanley-garner-40568\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is cornerback Stanley Garner. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The six foot three 180 pound Garner committed to Kentucky back on August 16th. He held offers from many big name schools including <strong>Auburn, Clemson, Louisville and Miami.<\/strong> Despite all those other offers Garner stayed with the Cats.<\/p>\n<p>Out of Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale Garner ranks as a four star player by Rivals. He is rated as the 35th cornerback in the nation and 71st best player in Florida.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Out of all the decision I made in my life Committing to the University of Kentucky has been the best one so far. I can\u2019t wait to be part of something special <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BBN<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udcaf signing day December 20th \u270d\ud83c\udfff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AT4oy1mRM9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/AT4oy1mRM9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SG3 \ud83d\udd4a (@StanleyG_9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanleyG_9\/status\/942845953945501696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Garner signed with the Cats on Wednesday at his high school in Fort Lauderdale. He plans to enroll in January to get a head start on learning the system. While the Cats have a lot of returning secondary players in 2018 the until failed to live up to expectations and were the worst in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore if Garner turn out to be as good as advertised there is no reason why he couldn&#8217;t push for playing time as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for checking out the Stanley Garner 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile here at <strong>Last<\/strong> <strong>Word On College Football.<\/strong> There will be more updates as more players sign their letters of intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Garner 2018 Kentucky Recruiting Profile Ever since coming to Lexington five years ago Mark Stoops has made recruiting\u00a0the state of Florida a priority. Using his time spent at both Florida State and Miami the Kentucky head coach has created a pipeline from the Sunshine State to Lexington. This year is no exception as seven [&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":[184,1407,2765,21,285,126,2750],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-kentucky-wildcats","tag-cfb","tag-college-football-recruiting","tag-early-signing-period","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mark-stoops","tag-ncaa","tag-stanley-garner"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","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=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78729,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/78729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}