The Tennessee-Kentucky football rivalry is one of the longest running series in the history of the Southeastern Conference.
Lately, especially during Rich Brooks and Joker Phillips head coaching eras in Lexington, a small pipeline went from East Tennessee to the Bluegrass State.
Four Knoxville area high school stars played for the Wildcats between 2006-10.
The most notable to play at Kentucky from the Knoxville area is Randall Cobb.
Cobb was a quarterback at Alcoa High School where he also lettered in basketball and track.
He won four Class 3A state football championships while playing for the Tornadoes.
Cobb went on to play college football in Lexington where he played both quarterback and wide receiver. He was a two-time All-SEC standout and an All-America performer in 2010.
He has went on to have a solid career in the National Football League. The former Wildcat was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft.
Cobb played for the Packers from 2011-18 and made the Pro Bowl 2014. He played for the Dallas Cowboys in 2019 before landing in Houston this season.
Kyrus Lanxter played wide receiver and defensive back at Alcoa and was Cobb’s teammate in high school.
Lanxter played for the Wildcats from 2007-09 and was a wide receiver.
Knoxville Central High School sent a pair of players to Lexington in kicker Lones Seiber and A.J. Nance.
Seiber was an all-conference kicker for Kentucky. He played there between 2006-09.
Nance played fullback between 2006-09.
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