{"id":399364,"date":"2026-01-10T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399364\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:18:16","slug":"pair-of-2025-kentucky-signees-sign-with-group-of-six-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399364\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of 2025 Kentucky signees sign with Group of Six programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transfer portal movement is a two-way street.\u00a0Will Stein<\/a>\u2018s first staff is working long hours right now to build a roster in college football free agency. Meanwhile, players that have left the Kentucky program are looking for new college football homes. Two class of 2025 signees are taking a step down to the group of six.<\/p>\n

Wide receiver Preston Bowman<\/a> is heading to the MAC. Quarterback Stone Saunders<\/a> will be joining the new Pac-12 where five Mountain West schools and Texas State are joining forces with Oregon State and Washington State to create an eight-team league that will begin in 2026.<\/p>\n

Preston Bowman was a three-star recruit out of Pickerington (Ohio) North who came into focus on the trail at a camp where Matt Ponatoski<\/a> first got on KSR\u2019s radar. Vince Marrow<\/a> quickly recorded a recruiting win. However, Bowman did not appear in a game for UK this season. This is a slot receiver who had a knack for contested catches in high school.<\/p>\n

Stone Saunders was a three-star quarterback who picked Kentucky over Nebraska. The Cats closed down this recruitment the summer before Saunders\u2019 junior year. The all-time touchdowns leader in Pennsylvanian threw for over 13,000 yards as a four-year starter and multi-time state champion at Harrisburg Bishop McDevitt. However, Saunders fell behind fellow class of 2025 signee Brennen Ward<\/a> and will now head to the West Coast.<\/p>\n

The player movement is not stopping as the transfer portal has entered Day 8.<\/p>\n

Kentucky transfer tracker<\/p>\n

So far, we know of 19 Kentucky football players who will be looking for a new place to play college football this offseason. The portal window officially closes Jan. 16.<\/p>\n

LB Landyn Watson (Committed to Kansas on Jan. 4)<\/p>\n

EDGE Steven Soles Jr. (Committed to Arkansas on Jan. 7)<\/p>\n

QB Stone Saunders (Committed to San Diego State on Jan. 6)<\/p>\n

WR David Washington Jr.<\/p>\n

WR Preston Bowman (Committed to Ohio on Jan. 7)<\/p>\n

DT Austin Ramsey (Committed to Kansas State on Jan. 6)<\/p>\n

WR Troy Stellato<\/p>\n

EDGE Javeon Campbell<\/p>\n

CB DJ Waller Jr. (Committed to Louisville on Jan. 3)<\/p>\n

EDGE Jacob Smith (Committed to Louisville on Jan. 6)<\/p>\n

DL Jerod Smith II (Committed to Louisville on Jan. 6)<\/p>\n

QB Cutter Boley (Committed to Arizona State on Jan. 3)<\/p>\n

WR Montavin Quisenberry (Committed to Louisville on Jan. 8)<\/p>\n

RB Dante Dowdell<\/p>\n

S Cam Dooley (Committed to Florida on Jan. 7)<\/p>\n

DB Quay\u2019Sheed Scott (Committed to South Carolina on Jan. 8)<\/p>\n

RB Jamarion Wilcox<\/p>\n

WR Cameron Miller<\/p>\n

WR Hardley Gilmore (Committed to Louisville on Jan. 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transfer portal movement is a two-way street.\u00a0Will Stein\u2018s first staff is working long hours right now to build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,192838,99,174707],"class_list":{"0":"post-399364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-preston-bowman-25-pickerington-north","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stone-saunders-25-bishop-mcdevitt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}