3/21/2016 football Edit

Top New Jersey prospect talks UK

Justin Rowland • CatsIllustrated

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Justin Rowland has been CatsIllustrated.com's publisher since 2015. He covered college football recruiting at programs nationwide for 15 years prior to that.

Bo Melton is one of the top 2017 prospects in New Jersey and Kentucky offered weeks ago. How serious a contender is UK in the recruiting battle that will play out in coming weeks?

Melton has offers from all of the Big Ten's top programs and those schools will surely have a say in determining where he ends up.

But several SEC schools, one being Kentucky, have also caught Melton's eye.

As assistant coach Andy Buh tries to make Kentucky relevant as a recruiting force in New Jersey, a state rarely targeted by SEC schools, is he making much headway? Will Melton visit Lexington, and what's he hearing from the Cats' area recruiter?

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