AWARDS/HONORS
- 2025 CUSA Offensive Player of the Week (9/29)
Before WKU: Wright joined the Hilltoppers after one season at Austin Peay. He led the Governors in rushing, posting 609 yards and five touchdowns on 115 attempts in 10 games, while also tallying five receptions for 32 yards. Prior to his arrival in Clarksville, Tennessee, Wright spent three seasons at Kentucky, where he appeared in 17 games at running back. He missed the 2023 season due to injury, but played in all 13 games for the Wildcats in 2022 as a redshirt freshman. He finished the season with 39 carries for 130 yards and six receptions for 28 yards. He played in four games in 2021 and redshirted. He posted 118 yards and a touchdown on nine carries that season as a true freshman.
HS/Misc.: Wright prepped at North Hardin High School, where he was rated a three-star recruit by 247Sports and Rivals. During his high school career, he rushed for 4,296 yards and 56 touchdowns and added 1,316 yards and 17 touchdowns receiving. As a senior in 2020, he was named the Kentucky Football Coaches Association Class 6A Player of the Year and a First Team All-State selection by the Louisville Courier-Journal after recording 884 yards and 11 touchdowns in seven games during a season shortened by the pandemic. He was also named to the Lexington Herald-Leader’s “Class of the Commonwealth” list. He ran for 1,189 yards and 25 touchdowns as a junior in 2019 and earned Second Team All-State honors from the Louisville Courier-Journal. As a high school sophomore at North Hardin, he rushed for 1,819 yards and 17 touchdowns.
