{"id":21523,"date":"2019-05-14T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2019-05-13T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:00:45","slug":"kentucky-lands-transfer-sawyer-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/05\/14\/kentucky-lands-transfer-sawyer-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Lands Sawyer Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Kentucky Lands Transfer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/sawyer-smith-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sawyer Smith<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong><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><\/strong> and the Wildcats picked up the major remaining piece to the 2019 season on Monday. Needing a quarterback to back up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/terry-wilson-3.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Terry Wilson<\/strong><\/a> the Cats got their man as Kentucky lands transfer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/sawyer-smith-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sawyer Smith<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Help At a Position of Need for the Cats<\/h4>\n<p>Back on April 27th <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/gunnar-hoak-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gunnar Hoak<\/a><\/strong> announced he was leaving Lexington to continue his football career at Ohio State.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Co\u274cing ho\u274ce!! \ud83c\udfc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XsGbsskISL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XsGbsskISL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gunnar Hoak (@GunnarHoak12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GunnarHoak12\/status\/1122292875386138629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hoak&#8217;s departure leaves the Cats with no experience behind Wilson. Kentucky has redshirt sophomore <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=7323\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walker Wood<\/a><\/strong>, however, due to injuries he has never played in a college game.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Wood,\u00a0Kentucky has two incoming freshmen\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2018\/12\/19\/kentucky-wildcats-2019-recruiting-profile-amani-gilmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amani Gilmore<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2018\/12\/19\/kentucky-wildcats-2019-recruiting-profile-nik-scalzo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nik Scalzo<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s hard to imagine offensive coordinator\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/coaches.aspx?rc=3139&amp;path=football\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eddie Gran<\/a><\/strong> wanting to throw either into the buzzsaw of the SEC. In addition, Scalzo is coming off an ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>Last week former Penn State quarterback\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tommy-stevens-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy Stevens<\/a><\/strong> visited Stoops and the Wildcats. However, it seems likely he ends up reuniting with former offensive coordinator <strong>Joe<\/strong> <strong>Moorhead<\/strong> at Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday via twitter Smith announced he was heading to Lexington and will have two years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to announce that I&#39;m going to spend my last seasons as a Graduate Transfer at THE University of Kentucky!! Words can&#39;t begin to explain how proud my family and I are to be apart of the <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\/UKFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@UKFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b223Ixk3td\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/b223Ixk3td<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sawyer Smith (@smittyyy22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smittyyy22\/status\/1127969474555076608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smith completed nearly 63 percent of his passes with 14 touchdowns and six interceptions last season at Troy. This after he was inserted into the starting role following an injury to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/kaleb-barker-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaleb Barker<\/a><\/strong>. In addition, he added another 191 yards and a touchdown on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Smith threw for 320 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-32 win over Buffalo <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2018\/12\/24\/troy-defeats-buffalo-in-the-2018-dollar-general-bowl-42-32\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the Dollar General Bowl.<\/a> Not only was the bowl game his last at Troy, but also turned out to be the last for Coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/neal-brown-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Brown<\/a><\/strong>. On January 5th Brown left to take the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/01\/05\/neal-brown-era-begins-in-morgantown\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">job at West Virginia<\/a> replacing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/coaches\/dana-holgorsen-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dana Holgorsen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again Stoops gets a huge pickup on Monday as Kentucky lands Smith. The Cats get exactly what they need for the upcoming season, a player with experience to back up Wilson. 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Needing a quarterback to back up Terry Wilson the Cats got their man as Kentucky lands transfer Sawyer Smith. Help At a Position of Need for the Cats Back on April 27th Gunnar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":21537,"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":[2,3],"tags":[184,1705,21,285,126,1712,3884,2737,4772],"class_list":["post-21523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sec","tag-cfb","tag-gunnar-hoak","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-mark-stoops","tag-ncaa","tag-neal-brown","tag-sawyer-smith","tag-terry-wilson","tag-troy-football"],"modified_by":"Jason Rhea","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523","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=21523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}