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Snodgrass ready for a big season

Justin Rowland
CatsIllustrated.com Football Recruiting Analyst

Thaddeus Snodgrass is excited about his future at Kentucky, but he's hoping for his best year of high school football yet.

The Springfield, Ohio, receiver expects to enroll at Kentucky early, as do most or even all of the Wildcats' commitments from Ohio. So it won't be long until the 6-foot-1, 184-pound receiver is in Lexington.

He's been a regular there since committing to UK at the Cats' spring game earlier this year, visiting the school for both major recruiting events this summer. He was at the big June event and then made it to the Friday Night Blue Lights camp in July.

Snodgrass has helped Kentucky recruit other players along the way and he was one reason fellow receiver T.V. Williams felt so comfortable at UK. Now he's talking to North Carolina receiver Braxton Berrios and trying to convince him to join the Cats' corps of wide-outs.

"I heard he got offered by Oregon but I know he's open to any school," Snodgrass told Cats Illustrated recently.

But recruiting and the process is mostly behind Snodgrass. All that's left for the four-star receiver is to sign his letter of intent later this year in December.

Now his focus is on finishing strong at Springfield.

"It's a whole new offense," Snodgrass explained. "We're going to be a more balanced offense this year. I'm very excited. I've been working on my hands and concentration just going up against good competition."

He saw that competition at The Opening and other major recruiting events that helped him fine-tune his skill set.

In a recent scrimmage against Cincinnati Winton Woods, and UK commit Mike Edwards and 2015 target George Brown, Snodgrass scored twice on receptions. Snodgrass said Springfield's biggest games this fall will be against Trotwood-Madison, Middletown, Wayne and Northmont.

While that's now his focus he hopes to attend UK games and follow along as the Wildcats step into the Mark Stoops era.

"I know it's going to be a struggle," he said. "But we're going to make a bowl game this year."

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