Kentucky has official visit scheduled with top-500 recruit Kamari Burns
College football programs can begin hosting class of 2023 recruits on campus in June for official visits. Coaching staffs are now jockeying for position to get key targets on campus. Kentucky has just locked in an official visit for one of the top recruits on their board.
According to Allen Trieu of 247 Sports, Gahanna (Ohio) Lincoln defensive end/EDGE Kamari Burns has official visits scheduled with Cincinnati (June 3-5), Kentucky (June 6-8), West Virginia (June 10-12), and Penn State (June 24-26). Vince Marrow is the lead recruiter for the Wildcats, and the program is seeing some familiar competition for the recruit located in the Columbus suburbs.
Kamari Burns is the No. 498 prospect in the 2023 class, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
On Jan. 19, Kentucky issued an offer to Burns and then got the line of scrimmage prospect on campus for an unofficial visit back in April.
Kamari Burns also took unofficial visits to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Tennessee over the spring. The high three-star recruit now has four visits locked in as Marrow is making a big push for the Big Blue.
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“I had a great conversation with Coach Marrow,” Burns told 247 Sports. “We talked about school, how my season went and my goals etc. I know Kentucky has been an elite program for years they’ve produced a lot of NFL players such as Benny Snell“.
Kentucky’s current 2023 class has just five commitments with just one player from Ohio. Kamari Burns is a top-15 prospect in the Buckeye State and a recruiting win could give the Wildcats some momentum as Marrow goes after some other key prospects in Ohio — Springfield wideout Anthony Brown and Cincinnati Winton Woods cornerback Jermaine Matthews.
Expect more official visits to be locked in over the next couple of weeks as football recruiting season is about to heat up.
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