Tomiwa Durojaiye wants to be one of the best defensive players ever at Kentucky.
Recent Kentucky football commit Tomiwa Durojaiye, a defensive lineman from Delaware, always loved football but in middle school he only played basketball.
“Football was always the most attractive sport to me and was the game I felt I could use to change the lives of my family and generations to come,” he said. “I played football in fifth grade and then picked it back up in ninth grade. The love was still there.”
Durojaiye, who is making his official visit to UK this weekend, will not be the highest-ranked signee in UK’s 2022 recruiting class but predicts the best is yet to come because of his relatively late start.
“One of the scary things about me is I have not really scratched the surface of my potential,” he said. “I can be a dominant player but even I do not know how dominant of a player I can be.
“Everything will work itself out. I am focusing on little things. You can have goals and think about them so much and then get sidetracked. I am more in love with the grind and hungry. That’s the approach I take. I can’t tell guys what to do, but I can lead by example and action.”
However, he does have lofty expectations/goals.
“Hopefully I will be one of the best defensive players and get Kentucky to places no one expected like the SEC championship and playoffs,” Durojaiye, who plans to enroll at UK in January, said. “I really do believe that.”
He has off-field aspirations, too.
“Just becoming a better person,” Durojaiye said. “At Kentucky, the player development and academic staff, they won’t let me short-change myself and that was one thing that attracted me to Kentucky. The coaching staff, their resumes are perfect and I feel like the best spot that can help me reach my goals. I mean their motto is recruit and develop so I know I can go in there to have a chance to improve and develop on and off the field.”
