Vince Marrow Calls This Year’s Tight End Group the Best in His Time at Kentucky

Vince Marrow has been with the Kentucky Football program for 11 years. As the Tight End’s coach, he has seen a number of players come through the program that are special, but as a group, he calls this year’s the best he’s had at Kentucky.

“This is the best (tight end) room that I’ve had since I’ve been here 11 years. Top to bottom,” he told media after Wednesday’s practice. “There is serious competition in there. You got a freshman that’s pretty good, you got Zay (Izayah Cummings), and to be honest, Brenden Bates had a big day today.”

It is clear that Offensive Coordinator Liam Coen plans to incorporate the Tight Ends back into the offense after a season with Rich Scangarello, where the position was hardly utilized in the passing game.

Coen recently talked about Izayah Cummings on KSR, saying “he’s having fun playing the game again.” He calls Cummings a “tireless worker”, a big part of his no-quit mindset during last season: “He plays the game physical, he plays the game fast.” …”He’ll definitely have a role on this offense and hopefully continue to expand on that role that he had.”

Cummings himself said he’s glad to have Liam Coen back running the offense: “It was nice having someone that knew me and worked with me.” …”He knew how to put me in those positions. Having him back made me very excited.”