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As National Football League Week One kicks off, 24 Kentucky Wildcats are currently on NFL club 53-man rosters, injured reserve or practice squads, with three additional players in other league roles.

After watching the tape of his team’s 24-16 win over Toledo, Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops liked some of the things he saw. But the UK head man also knows that there are plenty of things for his team to improve upon.

Kentucky kicks off the 2025 season on Saturday against a talented Toledo team. UK head coach Mark Stoops obviously wants his team to be at its best on Saturday, but he’s also looking for more.

With the court-approved legal settlement with the NCAA, schools and universities will now be allowed to pay student athletes directly. UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart released a statement on Saturday detailing how the athletics program will move forward.

Wildcat baseball season is over, but true to form, the team fought until the very end.

The Wildcats will head to the Clemson Regional after advancing to the postseason for third straight year, a program first.

For the 16th-straight season under head coach Rachel Lawson, the Kentucky Softball team was selected to compete in the NCAA Championship, as the Wildcats were selected as an at-large team out of the Southeastern Conference and will begin the march to the Women’s College World Series on Friday.

Kentucky junior defensive back Maxwell Hairston was chosen in the first round by the Buffalo Bills as the 30th overall pick in the 2025 National Football League Draft on Thursday night in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Georgia Amoore, an All-American point guard from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, is the eighth player in University of Kentucky women’s basketball history to be selected in the WNBA Draft and the first since Rhyne Howard was selected in 2022. She joins four other Cats – Howard, Evelyn Akhator, A’dia Mathies and Victoria Dunlap – in program history to be picked in the first round.

Lamont Butler scored 18 points and had six rebounds, but third-seeded Kentucky lost to second-seeded Tennessee 78-65 on Friday night in Indianapolis.