When the 2010’s began the Kentucky football program was coming off a fifth straight bowl game. However, things went downhill quickly in the early part of the decade. Now under Mark Stoops<\/a> the future is as bright as it’s ever been. Four straight bowl games and two victories. You can see there are a lot of talented players that went through Lexington as we present Kentucky’s All-Decade Offense.<\/p>\n Quarterback- Stephen Johnson<\/a>–<\/strong> Quite frankly the first position we did was the most difficult. Johnson or Terry Wilson<\/a>, who guided Kentucky to a 10 win season last year. Or what about Mike Hartline<\/a>, who starred in the early part of the decade?<\/p>\n In the end we went with Johnson, who took over in the third game of the 2016 season leading the Cats to two bowls. He threw for over 2,000 yards and rushed for 300 in each of his two seasons. In addition he orchestrated only the second win over Tennessee since 1984. Furthermore he led Kentucky to an upset of the Lamar Jackson<\/a> led Louisville team in 2016.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention- Terry Wilson<\/a>, Mike Hartline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Running Back 1- Benny Snell<\/a>–<\/strong> When you think of Kentucky running backs, Benny is the name that comes to mind. During his three years in Lexington Snell ran for a school record 3,873 yards. He also set the school scoring mark with 48 touchdowns which puts him third all-time in SEC history. When he left school he either owned or shared 14 school records. Drafted in the fourth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers Snell ran for 426 yards and two touchdowns in his rookie season.<\/p>\n Running Back 2- Stanley “Boom” Williams<\/a><\/strong>– Going back to 2016 the “Boom and Benny Show” were quite the tandem. Both ran for over 1,000 yards for the Cats that season. For his career Boom ran for 2,513 yards and 18 touchdowns. He also averaged 6.8 yards a carry while at Kentucky.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention- Jojo Kemp<\/a>, Derrick Locke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Now that we’ve gone through the backfield, let’s move onto the receivers in our look at Kentucky’s all-decade offense. You’ll notice these first two have a lot of similarities.<\/p>\n Wide Receiver 1 – Randall Cobb<\/a>–<\/strong> Though he only played in the first year of the decade Cobb put up some incredible numbers. He had 84 catches for 1,017 yards and seven touchdowns. His reception total put him second in the SEC behind Alshon Jeffery<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cobb actually came to Kentucky as a quarterback where he played his freshman year. However he moved to receiver while still lining up many times under center in the “Wildcat.” As a result he ran for 424 yards and five more scores. He only completed five passes in 2010 however three of them went for touchdowns.<\/p>\n As if he didn’t do enough Cobb also returned kickoffs and punts for Joker Phillips<\/strong>‘ team. In the process he racked up almost another thousand yards. Cobb was taken by Green Bay<\/strong> in the second round of the 2011 draft. He had his best year in 2014 with 91 receptions for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns. As a result he made the Pro-Bowl that year. After eight years with the Packers Cobb now plays for the Dallas Cowboys.<\/strong><\/p>\n Wide Receiver 2 – Lynn Bowden<\/a>–<\/strong> As the highest rated player in Kentucky’s 2016 recruiting class big things were expected from Bowden. However, no one could have predicted what happened during his junior year. With both starting quarterbacks injured Stoops and Eddie<\/strong> Gran<\/strong> turned to the former quarterback to run the offense.<\/p>\n What happened next is one of the best stretches in UK and for that matter SEC history.\u00a0During the final eight games Bowden ran for 1,468 yards which ended up tops in the league.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc51 @LynnBowden_1<\/a> | The @SEC<\/a> Rushing Yards Champ \ud83c\udfc6#BBN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CbeLbCB11n<\/a><\/p>\n — Kentucky Football (@UKFootball) January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nA Formidable Backfield<\/h3>\n
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