Head coach Mark Stoops has awarded four UK walk-ons with scholarships for this season.
Stoops gave Charles Walker a scholarship earlier in camp. Sunday, he also rewarded senior fullback Will Thomas Collins, senior fullback/tight end Tanner Fink and redshirt junior lineman Dylan Greenberg with scholarships.
Here are more details from the Courier-Journal:
So when UK head coach Mark Stoops returned to the meeting room Sunday night after a long session with players, a scholarship was not the first thing on senior fullback Will Thomas Collins’ mind.
“We were all sitting there thinking, ‘We’re tied, we want to go home,’” Collins said. “He said that we were going to put a couple guys on scholarship who worked hard for us. So I kind of started to hope, ‘How cool would it be if you were one of those guys?’ Then obviously he said my name, and everybody starts jumping around, giving you high fives and stuff. It was pretty cool.”
Collins, senior fullback/tight end Tanner Fink and redshirt junior offensive lineman Dylan Greenberg each joined Walker in going on scholarship Sunday. All three players are expected to graduate after the season, allowing UK to still use the scholarships for the 2017 recruiting class.
