Justin Jeffries, former Kentucky Right Tackle from 2006-08, called me this evening and I got a chance to find out how things were going in football and out.
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Justin had been playing for the AFL 1 Tulsa Talons from February to April.
The wear and tear on his body made Justin decide that football wasn’t for him anymore.
“The arena thing wasn’t really for me,” he said. “The surface was torture on my knees.”
Jeffries played 6 games in the AFL, but felt like the pay and grind wasn’t for him anymore.
“Tulsa was a nice town, but it was a whole lot different than Kentucky,” Justin said. “I had a lot of injuries at Kentucky and that was the knock on me going to the NFL.”
“It was hard to walk at times after games, I figured it was time to be with my family.”
Justin’s family grew by one on April 19th, when his daughter Olidia was born.
“That made it a littler easier to hang it up.”
Justin is now living in Nashville, Tennessee and working in Allensville, Kentucky at Longvue Farms.
“I grew up on a farm, so I am doing what I love,” said Jeffries. “I get up at 5:30 and drive 35 minutes to work where I run equipment on a 6000 acre corn, soybean, and grain farm.”
Justin still keeps up with the Cats and still talks to former Kentucky teammate Christian
Johnson who plays for the Dallas Vigilantes in the AFL.
Justin is hoping to come back for a game this season, and will hopefully not be working when the Cats play Western Kentucky in Nashville.
It is always great to catch up with former Cats, and Justin Jeffries definitely still bleeds blue.
