Kenny Yeboah
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He graduated, so he could leave without a waiver. From what I understand, the feedback he’s gotten is he has NFL measurable, but because he was hurt so much, he needed to put stuff on film in an FBS league to have a shot at getting drafted.
He got recruited by Rhule at Temple and was planning to transfer to reunite with him at Baylor. When Rhule took the Panthers job, Yeboah looked elsewhere. I think he didn’t totally mesh scheme wise with the new staff at Temple - he was a Rhule project coming in, and he also battled injuries his last two seasons. Not sure of the Ole Miss connection - Chris Partridge is on staff there and has tons of Valley ties from his playing days at Lafayette (Moncman is a Lafayette alum too and was the DC at Parkland when Yeboah was there, so that might have been a connection?) and Jeff Lebby was at UCF and played against Yeboah at Temple.
I always was a little miffed that Yeboah wasn’t considered a bigger recruit. My knock on him was that he only ran two routes at Parkland and he was going to need skill development either at X receiver or tight end. And I know his 40 time wasn’t great and meant he’d have to play tight end instead of receiver. But he had an FBS body with room to fill out (he’s a monster now and has gotten faster as he’s put on weight), great hands, and was super productive in big school football. And watching him play hoops, you could tell what a fluid athlete he was and he could really jump. And from what I understand he’s a really smart kid, so the chances of him converting coaching to improvement are pretty high. He had enough holes that I get Penn State/Ohio State looking somewhere else, but the West Virginia/Pitt/Michigan State/Iowa type schools felt like they should have been all over him.