Stop what you’re doing and watch Hardley Gilmore’s INSANE one-handed grab (and other highlights) from Kentucky’s scrimmage

Mark Stoops was pleased with Kentucky’s ability to move the ball and find the end zone in the team’s first intrasquad scrimmage of fall camp. He did not tell us Hardley Gilmore IV put Maryland transfer DB Kevis Thomas on YOU GOT MOSSED!

The UK Sports Video team finally shared some extended footage of the Wildcats’ live game reps this weekend, a minute-long clip that ends with Gilmore going up for a ball from Zach Calzada with Thomas in tight coverage, reaching out with his left arm to pull down the grab and finish the play with a toe-tap on the sideline.

“Find a way to dig deep, get this thing going from start to finish,” Brad White said to open the highlights. “Strong, violent, mentally tough. All day. That should be your mentality.”y

Unfortunately for the Kentucky defensive coordinator, Gilmore happened to be strong, violent and mentally tough on his unit for that play in particular.

Elsewhere, you get to see Calzada ripping one to Troy Stellato on the out route to the pylon, Gilmore making defenders miss in the open field, Jason Patterson breaking tackles out of the backfield and scoring touchdowns, Sam Greene and JQ Hardaway earning PBUs, Jacob Kauwe drilling one of his six made field goals and Cutter Boley finding the end zone on a scramble.

Even the most pessimistic Kentucky football fan going into 2025 can find something to love in those highlights, guaranteed:

“Good scrimmage today. I’m very pleased with the progress we’ve made this week,” Stoops said Saturday. “We went six of the first seven days to start camp and things were a little hit and miss, but the latter part of this week, including the scrimmage, we really picked it up. We became a sharper football team. Not as many mistakes. It was good to get out and put the ball down, get a bunch of reps out there.

“It was a good, physical day. We got a lot of situational work done, which was good. … There’s definite improvement, and we all know that’s what we need to do.”

More specifically, he loved the points his offense managed to put on the scoreboard.

“We got the ball in the end zone, points,” he continued. “The bottom line is we scored some points and that’s something we know we need to improve on.”

Gilmore’s goal-line snag certainly led to six of ’em. Goodness gracious, what a catch.