LEXINGTON, Ky.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Five\u00a0University of\u00a0Kentucky football players,\u00a0including\u00a0Henry Boyer, Tavion Gadson\u00a0Mi\u2019Quise\u00a0Grace-Humphrey,\u00a0Terhyon\u00a0Nichols and Willie Rodriguez, have been named to the 13th Annual Collegiate All-Commonwealth Team\u00a0presented\u00a0by the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Collegiate All-Commonwealth Team is a preseason recognition award honoring football players attending Kentucky colleges and universities. The team represents the best college football players in all classifications in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the award is to promote college football in Kentucky and to honor players whose leadership on the field and in the classroom reflects their potential as future leaders beyond the game. Players were nominated by their head coaches for\u00a0exhibiting\u00a0these exceptional qualities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Wildcats recognized this season are as follows:<\/p>\n
Henry Boyer\u00a0is a 6-6, 270-pound senior tight end from Chicago, Illinois. He transferred to Kentucky last fall after three seasons at Illinois, where he played in 25 games, made two starts and had three catches for a total of 20 yards. In his first season in the Bluegrass last fall, he saw action in all 12 games and made one start against Eastern Michigan in Week 3. He totaled five catches for 62 yards on the season, including a season- and career-high-tying two catches for a career-high 25 yards at Vanderbilt, which included a career-long 19-yard catch. He also\u00a0came up with\u00a0a key fumble\u00a0recovery\u00a0in the win at Auburn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tavion Gadson is a 6-5,\u00a0303-pound junior\u00a0defensive lineman\u00a0from\u00a0Savannah, Georgia.\u00a0Gadson came back from injury to\u00a0play in\u00a011 games\u00a0last season\u00a0and\u00a0make\u00a0the first start of his college career. He\u00a0totaled\u00a028 tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and three quarterback hurries.\u00a0In fact, his\u00a02.5 sacks\u00a0tied for second most on the team.\u00a0He made at least three tackles in six of his\u00a0first seven games back from injury, including a\u00a0career-high four tackles in three consecutive games on the season, including at South Carolina, at Georgia and against Texas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mi\u2019Quise\u00a0Grace-Humphrey\u00a0is a 6-4, 271-pound senior defensive lineman from Cincinnati, Ohio. He arrived\u00a0at\u00a0Kentucky last fall from South Dakota and was omnipresent on the Cats\u2019 defensive line. He started all 12 games and led the UK line with 31 total tackles on the season. He added a team-high-tying\u00a0seven tackles for loss (for minus-47 yards) and 3.5 sacks (for minus-39 yards), which also tied a team-best. He had six quarterback hurries, two pass\u00a0breakups\u00a0and a forced fumble.\u202f He also received praise from the coaching staff, not only for the plays for which he received credit, but also for his ability to hold the point of attack and steer plays to teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Terhyon\u00a0Nichols\u00a0is a 5-11, 194-pound junior defensive back from Cincinnati, Ohio.\u00a0He played just seven games and made six starts before\u00a0missing the last five games\u00a0because of\u00a0injury. In his reduced time last season, he combined for 18 tackles, 1.0 tackles for loss, five\u00a0pass breakups and a quarterback hurry. Despite playing a limited number of games, his five PBUs led the team. He\u00a0tallied a\u00a0career-high four tackles\u00a0at\u00a0Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Willie Rodriguez\u00a0is a 6-4, 249-pound junior tight end from Taylor Mill, Kentucky. He started in seven of 12 games last season, compiling 23 catches for\u00a0310 yards\u00a0and one touchdown. He hauled in a pair of receptions for 28 yards and the first touchdown of his college career against Eastern\u00a0Michigan\u00a0and the\u00a0next week he totaled two more receptions for 66 yards at South Carolina. That included a career-long, 53-yard reception. Also on the season,\u00a0Rodriguez\u00a0caught a career-high six passes for a career-high 78 yards at Vanderbilt, while his six receptions became the most for a tight end since C.J. Conrad also had six at Mississippi State in 2015.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Five\u00a0University of\u00a0Kentucky football players,\u00a0including\u00a0Henry Boyer, Tavion Gadson\u00a0Mi\u2019Quise\u00a0Grace-Humphrey,\u00a0Terhyon\u00a0Nichols and Willie Rodriguez, have been named to the 13th Annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,1455,49,48,104033],"class_list":["post-879610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-headlines","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-non-homepage-featured"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116499602736987505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}