{"id":379793,"date":"2025-12-31T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:04:09","slug":"kentucky-could-become-option-for-blue-chip-qb-ryder-lyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379793\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky could become option for blue-chip QB Ryder Lyons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryder Lyons<\/a> is a top-50 recruit in the 2026 Rivals Industry Ranking and the No. 5 quarterback in high school football. The Folsom (Calif.) High prospect will have high expectations when he arrives to college but that will take a couple of years.<\/p>\n

This blue-chip quarterback is set to go on a LDS mission for a year before enrolling in a college ahead of the 2027 fall semester. That means Ryder Lyons will start his college football journey in 2027. Despite signing with BYU, this recruitment is not over yet. <\/p>\n

Rivals\u2019 Steve Wiltfong reports that multiple schools will continue to pursue the highly ranked quarterback<\/a>. Those pursuits will heat up once Ryder Lyons finishes his mission. Kentucky could be one of the schools who makes a push to flip the talented quarterback. Oregon was heavily involved in the race for Lyons and Will Stein<\/a> served as the lead recruiter for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

The quarterback is a big fan of Kentucky\u2019s new head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Stein is an incredible coach, I think one of the best in the country. He\u2019s a great recruiter, great leader and he runs a phenomenal offense and is a good quarterback coach,\u201d Lyons told Rivals. \u201cI think in college football it all runs off the quarterback, so if you have successful quarterbacks, you\u2019ll have a successful team. So I think they\u2019ll be very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kentucky\u2019s new coaching staff is starting to send out offers for the 2027 class as the program builds a high school recruiting target board. UK will have to figure out what they want to do at quarterback after adding blue-chip recruit Matt Ponatoski<\/a> to the 2026 class. Ryder Lyons will very likely be on that board and be a player that the Cats will kick the tires on.<\/p>\n

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