Ty Bryant, 3-star class of 2023 ATH, set to make decision tomorrow

Kentucky Football could be looking at its first class of 2023 commitment by this time on Thursday in the form of Ty Bryant.

Tomorrow at 4 p.m. EST at Frederick Douglass High School, Bryant, a three-star athlete from right here in Lexington, KY, will make his college decision. A 6-foot, 175-pound multi-positional talent mainly used as a defensive back, Bryant recently reclassified from 2022 to 2023 not long ago, as he did not turn 17 until today.

Kentucky and associate head coach Vince Marrow have been recruiting Bryant since before offering him a scholarship in Jan. 2020.

Class of 2023 ATH and big-time Kentucky target, Ty Bryant (@Ty_Bryant32) will make his college decision on August 19 at 4pm in Frederick Douglass HS, his father tells me.

The decision was initially scheduled for his 17th birthday on August 18 but has been pushed back a day.

— Zack Geoghegan (@ZGeogheganKSR) August 10, 2021

Heading into the decision, all signs are pointing toward Bryant picking the Wildcats. His father, Cisco Bryant, played at Kentucky under former head coach Jerry Claiborne from 1983-85. Additionally, the younger Bryant attends Frederick Douglass HS, which has churned out two current Kentucky freshmen in Dekel Crowdus and Jager Burton, the former being a good friend of his. Bryant is also close friends with another premier Kentucky recruit who attends Frederick Douglass, four-star class of 2022 wide receiver Dane Key.

Bryant has previously earned offers from Marshall, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Maryland, Dartmouth, West Virginia, Kansas, Toldeo, Air Force, Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky, Austin Peay, and UT Martin. He’s also a star baseball player and has spoken previously about playing both sports in college.

“Ty has a lot of self-confidence about himself,’ Frederick Douglass head coach Nathan McPeek told KSR back in February. “He thinks he’s the best guy on our team, which we’re blessed with a lot of skill players so it’s a battle every day in practice. But he thinks he’s the best and can line up against the Dane Key’s and Dekel [Crowdus]’s of the word and win every rep. That’s just kinda how he is. In my 18 years of coaching, he’s one of the best open-field tacklers I’ve ever seen and had that I’ve coached. Just a really really good instinctive football player and really good in the open field.”

Despite his father’s connection to Kentucky, Bryant is still going to make the decision that is best for his future.

“He wants me to go wherever best fits me and he understands that,” Ty Bryant told KSR. “Even though he wants Kentucky, if I choose to go there he would love it, but he wants me to go wherever I feel best at. So we don’t really talk about me going to Kentucky a lot, we just talk about my recruitment as a whole.”

Bryant is ranked by 247 Sports as the seventh-best Kentucky prospect in his class and would be the first commit for the Wildcats’ 2023 group if he were to pick UK on Thursday.

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