Former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Gerald Mincey won't suit up for Kentucky this weekend when the Wildcats visit Neyland Stadium. 

Mincey, who transferred from Tennessee to Kentucky after the 2023 season, has been ruled out for Saturday's matchup between the Vols and the Wildcats. It will be the second straight game that Mincey has missed. 

The news that Mincey won't play against Tennessee comes just a couple of weeks after the former Vol took to Twitter to throw some thinly veiled shade at his old team. 

It went mostly unnoticed by fans, but after Tennessee's overtime win against Florida earlier this month, Mincey retweeted a tweet that highlighted the individual PFF grades of the Vols' offensive line. 

The grades weren't kind to offensive tackle Lance Heard (Heard, who transferred from LSU to Tennessee after the 2023 season, was the replacement for Mincey). 

It's pretty obvious that Mincey was taking a passive aggressive dig at Tennessee, right? 

I mean, why else would a Kentucky offensive linemen retweet something that highlights a poor PFF grade for the player that happened to replace him at Tennessee? Especially after Mincey spent a chunk of time in the offseason throwing shade at the Vols. 

Mincey spent the first half of the offseason talking trash about his old team, even suggesting that the Wildcats were going to "bust them (Vols) in the mouth. 

"I think I owe it to all the Kentucky fans to handle business on Nov. 2 (when UK and UT play)," said Mincey in late January. "So I'm excited for that…."Kentucky has got to do more to earn it (a win against Tennessee)….I love the underdog (role). So when we go there Nov. 2 to Neyland and we bust them in the mouth, we can put the standard back over here."

Mincey even threw some shade at Tennessee's offense in April while again referencing "November 2".

"It's not fast (Kentucky's offense), but what's different is with Tennessee, we [weren't] sideline to sideline, we were up the hash," said Mincey. "So a lot of our plays were vertical. Since I transferred here, I haven't ever really worked on inside zone/outside zone, cutting off, or even duo, just little plays like that. My trouble right now is play-action pass. It's just all different, all new to me…just keep working on it, keep trending in the right way so on Saturday, especially on November 2, we'll be in the right place."

November 2 is finally here. And Mincey, according to the latest SEC injury report, will simply be a spectator. 

Talk about an anticlimactic ending to one of the biggest storylines of the offseason. 

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