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Kentucky is first SEC offer for 2014 linebacker

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

KeShun Freeman is interested in all the schools that have offered him and Kentucky in a special way.

The Wildcats are the first SEC school to offer the Hogansville (Ga.) Callaway standout.

Duke, Indiana, North Carolina and Stanford are the other schools that have offered Freeman, who is likely to play linebacker in college.

Some schools see the 6-foot-3, 218-pound Peach State product as manning the inside linebacker position while some have him on the outside. Kentucky falls into the latter camp, but that's a minor detail. The Wildcats just want to get him on board and will worry about the rest later.

UK assistant coach Derrick Ansley orchestrated the offer, first calling the head coach at Callaway. From there Freeman's coach informed his mother of the offer. She and Freeman's father spoke to Ansley and then the prospect did later in the day.

"I talked to Coach Ansley and he told me I have a full offer to come to Kentucky," Freeman said. "He gave me a couple of details about the school. I was very excited to hear from him. I'm very blessed."

Freeman said he and both his mother and father were impressed with what Ansley had to say.

"We really liked him a lot," he said. "I was liking the things he was talking about. I was very impressed.

"First he started out by asking how I'm doing and how my training is going. He told me if I come to the school the coaches take care of the players but they're going to make sure the players do their work on the field and in the classroom."

That was a message that resonated with the Freeman family.

"Academics are a really big thing for me so I liked hearing that. That was big," he said. "And it's my first SEC offer, so I was excited to get that one."

Freeman concluded by saying he does not have any favorites but is taking an especially hard look at the schools that have offered. He plans to set up trips to Stanford, Kentucky, Indiana and North Carolina in the near future.

Last fall as a junior Freeman accounted for 96 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, four sacks and two pass break-ups.

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