Will Stein wants Cutter Boley at Kentucky "100 Percent"

The future of Cutter Boley has been on the tip of the tongue of BBN for weeks. The redshirt freshman was a breath of fresh air in 2025, revitalizing a stale offense by slinging the rock. For the first time in a long time, the future looked bright with Boley under center.

That future was in question long before Kentucky made a coaching change. When Will Stein replaced Mark Stoops, many wondered what that would mean for the Kentucky kid. Will he continue to be the Cats’ quarterback, or is Stein bringing in his own guy to lead the UK offense?

During a conversation with Matt Jones on Kentucky Sports Radio, Stein confirmed a KSR+ report that he met with Boley this morning. Stein pitched himself as the coach to take Boley’s game to the next level.

“What I urged him, and I’m urging all of our guys, is just compete, compete,” said Stein. “No matter who’s out there, no matter if you’re the 1, 2, 3, whatever you think you are.

“We’ll go through the whole spring ball without a depth chart. There’s not going to be a depth chart. We’re gonna have a blue squad and white squad. Those will change weekly. What it’s going to allow us to do is develop our roster, the old guys and the young guys. You guys have all seen spring football or fall camp. ‘Hey, the ones are out there. Well, the ones are going into the twos.’ Well, how do we actually know if two can’t play with the ones? Let’s blend them all together. Let’s develop the roster. Let’s keep the guys engaged and not worry about where I’m at. I mean, we can do that.”

Stein did make his way back to quarterback talk.

“We’re all going to get better,” he continued. “The quarterbacks are going to get better. A guy like Cutter is going to continue to improve. So I just urged him to compete and to trust this process and to know that I don’t think there’s a better guy that’s going to be his head coach than me, to coach the quarterbacks, and to be around him every single day.”

Jones pushed Stein, asking the new head coach if he wants Boley to be a part of the program.

“100 percent. I want all these guys to be part of the program,” said Stein. “If you turn on the tape, there’s some elite characteristics from a lot of guys on the squad. I think we just got to continue to push them and continue to create accountability within the team, and toughness, and be great in all three phases.”

During his introductory press conference, KSR asked the new head coach what he looks for in quarterbacks. They must be accurate, mobile, able to maneuver within the pocket, and “the toughest MFer on the field.” Boley checks all of those boxes.