Maxwell Hairston, Deone Walker accept invites to Senior Bowl [Video]

There are a lot of moving parts over on the football side of campus at the University of Kentucky. The Wildcats are working to close strong in the transfer portal. Once the spring semester begins, winter workouts at the Joe Craft Football Training Facility will be underway and relationship-building with 2026 high school prospects will ramp up.

We will also shift into draft mode.

On the last weekend of April in Green Bay, the 2025 NFL Draft will take place. We could see a handful of Kentucky prospects drafted this season. The two top prospects will be present at the showcase event of the pre-draft process.

Deone Walker and Maxwell Hairston officially accepted Senior Bowl invites on Tuesday.

A new rule allows juniors to participate in this event. Andru Phillips took advantage of this rule change last year as a redshirt junior and improved his draft stock. Deone Walker and Maxwell Hairston will be looking to do the same.

Deone …