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Cats making run at Pennsylvania safety Henry

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

The Wildcats aren't recruiting the state of Pennsylvania with the same intensity they are blanketing Ohio, but there are signs UK is trying to inch their way each.

The evidence includes offers to prospects like Alex Bookser and Troy Apke, the latter having recently committed to Penn State. And more recently Kentucky started showing interest in Aliquippa (Pa.) safety Dravon Henry.

News started circulating this week that Kentucky had offered the 6-foot, 185-pound safety, but those reports may have been premature.

"The coach (Derrick Ansley) came to my track meet and said they're going to offer me but they want to offer me face to face in the coach's office," Henry said. "I don't know if they have (offered) for sure but they're going to."

There's just one catch: There's no guarantee Henry will actually visit Kentucky.

It's something he's open to doing but Henry already has a long offer list and recently listed four schools as his favorites. Those schools are Ohio State, Penn State, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, and while he has clarified that he's still open to others, that's what he's thinking for now.

Nonetheless Ansley made the trip to the Keystone State and made it clear that Kentucky would like Henry to at least consider a trip to Lexington.

"(Ansley) told me a little bit about the school and how it's SEC ball," Henry said. "Big and fast. He talked about how that's the best conference. He told me about the defense and asked me what our style of defens eis. He talked to our defensive coach, too.

"He seemed like a good coach, a real young guy."

Henry did say that he probably will not take any more college visits until sometime during the football season this fall.

The four-star prospect is ranked the No. 12 safety and No. 157 overall prospect in the nation according to Rivals.com.

http://kentucky.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1501158