High Schools Feeding Kentucky Football

High Schools Represented on the Kentucky Football Roster

1. 01Frederick Douglass
   3Players
2. 02St. Xavier
   3Players
3. 03Covington Catholic
   2Players
4. 04Jenkins
   2Players
5. 05Katy
   2Players

Where Kentucky Football Pulls From, By State

One Brother, Out Of That List

The roster above is not theoretical. Kevin's younger brother Kyle ran the same kind of road out of Don Bosco Prep, walked into Rutgers, captained a Big Ten roster, and got drafted in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

1. 01

   Don Bosco Prep

   Overlooked by Power-4

2. 02

   Rutgers

   Big Ten captain

3. 03

   2025 NFL Draft

   Round 7, Pick #233

4. 04

   Chicago Bears

   Active roster

How We Count

Numbers come from the publicly available 2025 Kentucky football roster. We track recruiting at the granularity we have it. The decision a family makes here is too big to plan around guesses, so we put the rosters in front of you.

Parents Ask Us

Q.01

Where does Kentucky football recruit from?

Right now, the Kentucky football roster carries 167 players from 91 high schools across 24 states. Counts come from the current 2025 roster.

Q.02

Which high school sends the most players to Kentucky football?

Frederick Douglass leads with 3 current players on the roster. Beyond the top, the feeder map is wide and shallow; most high schools are represented by 1 or 2 players.

Q.03

Which states feed the most players to Kentucky football?

Georgia leads at 17% of the roster (16 players), then Ohio at 15% (14) and Kentucky at 12% (11). Texas ties Kentucky at #4. The top three are above; ranks 4 through 10 unlock with a free account.

Q.04

How does RawRecruit count players on the Kentucky football roster?

We pull the current 2025 Kentucky football roster from public school athletics sites and count each player against the home state and high school listed on the roster line.

Q.05

Is Kentucky football a realistic target for an out-of-state player?

Yes. With 24 different home states on the current roster, Kentucky recruits nationally; no single region dominates. For an out-of-state kid, position fit and academic admission carry as much weight as where you live.

Q.06

What does my kid actually do with this list of feeder high schools?

The list is the input. The seven-step playbook is the action. Profile your kid's real numbers, build a target list off the schools above, send the email coaches actually read, and run the visit on full information. The full playbook lives at /guides/football/diy-recruiting and was written by Kevin from the same road he walked his brother Kyle through.

Q.07

Why does Kentucky football recruit nationally instead of mostly from one state?

Because the talent pool a roster of this size needs is wider than any single state can fill. Georgia leads at 17% of the roster (16 players), but the program rounds out depth by recruiting nationally. The home-state breakdown above shows where the recruiting net pulls hardest.

Q.08

How is this list different from the one on Kentucky's official roster page?

The official athletics page lists the current roster with names, positions, and class years. We pull from that public source, then resolve and clean the home-state and high-school strings so the feeder map adds up at the state and HS level. We also strip scrape artifacts (bracket escapes, junk sentinels) so the high schools are countable.

Q.09

Why is RawRecruit giving away the rosters and coach contacts for free?

Because the data is the easy part. The hard part is keeping a school list current, filtering programs by your kid's real fit, and tracking coach records as staffs turn over every cycle. The free profile saves the work; the paid tiers exist for families who want deeper fit analytics. The free profile is enough for most.