{"id":160871,"date":"2024-02-03T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=160871"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:02:22","slug":"reeses-senior-bowl-exclusive-interview-trevin-wallace-kentucky-lb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/02\/03\/reeses-senior-bowl-exclusive-interview-trevin-wallace-kentucky-lb\/","title":{"rendered":"Reese&#8217;s Senior Bowl Exclusive Interview: Trevin Wallace &#8211; Kentucky LB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevin Wallace was a three-year letterman for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/trevin-wallace\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildcats<\/a> and played in 36 games with 19 starts. Great leadership skills and was named a permanent team captain in 2023. In three seasons, he amassed 166 tackles, 18 TFLs, 10 sacks, five QB hurries, three interceptions, two forced fumbles and a pass breakup. Wallace was named to the Butkus Award watch list his junior year and has fantastic speed and range for a player his size at 6&#8217;2&#8243;, 240 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I sat down with the Kentucky linebacker at Reese&#8217;s Senior Bowl Media Day as he talked about his time in Lexington and what he can bring to an NFL roster in April.<\/p>\n<h2>Reese&#8217;s Senior Bowl Exclusive Interview: Trevin Wallace &#8211; Kentucky LB<\/h2>\n<p><strong>LWONFL: <\/strong>I wanted to ask you about your time in Lexington, how did you like playing for Coach Stoops?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;I loved playing for Coach Stoops because he&#8217;s a well-rounded coach who understands the players. Having that connection with the players is very good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL: <\/strong>How do you feel your career has ascended from where you started in Lexington?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;So my career has ascended well. Starting my freshman year being behind a wonderful linebacker and my friend DeAndre Square, he left me a torch, and I took over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL:<\/strong> How do you feel the state of Kentucky Football has grown since you arrived?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s grown a lot. Back then, we heard Kentucky is a basketball school but now, sometimes people are like, oh, the football team. I feel like we&#8217;re making a name for ourselves and the football team, and I like that about Kentucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL:<\/strong> How do you feel your first, couple of days here in Mobile have went? Are there any big takeaways from the last two days?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;Both days were good. If you make a mistake on the first day, ensure you don&#8217;t make it on the second. Just keep moving because you&#8217;re being evaluated 24\/7. You don&#8217;t want any coach seeing you make the same mistake twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL:<\/strong> How do you feel your defensive coordinator, Brad White has prepared you for the next level?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;So he has prepared me real well. Everyone knows Coach White was an NFL coach so he knows the ins and outs of what coaches are looking for. I like Coach White because he&#8217;s guided me through the process and has helped me out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL:<\/strong> What are the biggest strengths you think you&#8217;d bring to an NFL team?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m athletic and fast for my size. You don&#8217;t see very many linebackers that are 240 pounds running sideline to sideline. I&#8217;m also a powerful dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LWONFL:<\/strong> Thank you for your time. Good luck in the Draft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace: <\/strong>&#8220;Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Scott Utterback\/Courier Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive interview with linebacker Trevin Wallace from Kentucky at Reese&#8217;s Senior Bowl Media Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3872,"featured_media":160894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,1647],"tags":[10073,32341],"class_list":["post-160871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","category-nfl-draft","tag-2024-nfl-draft","tag-trevin-wallace"],"modified_by":"Will Koshover, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}