Illinois Football Recruiting: Kentucky’s Mark Stoops Visits Drew Barker

Kentucky’s head coach Mark Stoops visited 2014 quarterback Drew Barker on January 24th.

Barker has offers from ten teams. The teams to have offered at him include: Kentucky, South Carolina, Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Louisville, North Carolina, Purdue, Tennessee, and Western Kentucky.

Dec 2, 2012; Lexington , KY, USA; Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Stoops spoke to reporters during a press conference at the Nutter Field House. Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

Out of those ten offers, it is projected that Barker is heavily interested in the Kentucky Wildcats and the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Barker is a 6’4″, 210 pound pro-style quarterback from Hebron, Kentucky. He is currently a junior at Conner High School.

Conner made it into the Class 5A Kentucky State Playoffs. They lost in the second round to Franklin County, 59-62.

The four-star recruit is currently ranked 1st in the state of Kentucky, 6th among pro-style quarterbacks, and 94th nationally among 2014 high school recruits by 247Sports.

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