BluegrassPreps.com Mr. Football Watchlist (9/10)

[DevilMayCare]

Week 3 Headlines

• Q-rating off the charts

• Alpha Male

• Hayden shows no fear of Heights 

 

First Team All-Watchlist

Montavin Quisenberry (Boyle County, ATH)

With the eyes of Kentucky and Northeastern Ohio fixed upon him, Quisenberry made his move. His advancements came by land (141 yards/3 TDs) and by air (2/2 for 89 yards and a TD) against the #1 team from the Buckeye State, and he drove the final nail in St. Ed's coffin with a fourth quarter interception. Quisenberry plays a number of roles for the Rebels, but may have to add another title to his repertoire after this performance…. that of Mr. Football favorite, at least for the time being. 

Season to date: 34 carries for 249 yards and 5 TDs | 11 catches for 169 yards and 1 TD | 1 passing TD | 1 INT

 

 

Second Team All-Watchlist

Photo by Clare Grant for the Courier-Journal.

Antonio Harris (Male, ATH)

As the cliché goes, ‘big time players make big time plays in big time games’. Harris is here, now, because he was the biggest player making the biggest plays in the biggest game, at least of the one's played on our soil. He set season highs for touches (8), yards (166), and touchdowns (3), including smoking a pair of St. X defenders for a deep ball that forced overtime, where he then tossed the game winning two point conversion. These are the moments on the biggest stages that carve deep swaths through our consciousness and transform great players into all-timers.

Season to date: 16 carries for 225 yards and 4 TDs | 4 receptions for 103 yards and 2 TDs

 

Third Team All-Watchlist

Photo by Charles Bolton for LinkNKY.

Clay Hayden (Beechwood, QB)

Among the loaded class of '25 quarterbacks, Hayden was the forgotten man through two weeks. He wasn't playing poorly, he simply wasn't meeting the standard he set last year. That changed against Dixie Heights, whom Hayden lit up for over 300 yards of total offense and four touchdowns through the air. The deep ball was clicking, as he connected on a few rainmakers, including a dime that was incorrectly ruled out of bounds. When he's pushing the ball downfield with confidence, the Tigers border on unstoppable. 

 

Season to date: 47/75 for 718 yards and 9 TDs and 2 INTs

Highlights: vs. Dixie Heights

 

Honorable Mention

Brady Atwell (Owensboro Catholic, QB)

Another week, six more touchdowns, this time against Greenwood to go with 324 combined yards. This has become routine.

Season To Date: 43/67 for 685 yards and 12 TDs with 2 INTs | 196 rushing yards and 5 TDs 

 

Kade Elam (Corbin, QB)

He was 🤏 to perfection against Lexington Catholic, completing 23 of 24 passes for 244 yards and 4 total touchdowns. That's about as crisp as it gets. 

Season to date: 61/78 for 841 yards and 8 TDs | 4 rushing TDs 

Highlights: vs. LexCath

 

Austin Alexander (Cooper, DE/TE)

Helped the Jags get over the hump against Ryle with a sack and 72 yards on six catches in one of the week's biggest games. 

Season to date: 7 tackles | 3 sacks | 10 catches for 113 yards

 

Cortez Stone (Central, RB)

Cortez returned from a week off by shredding the Butler Bears for 229 yards and 3 TDs on 15 carries. 

Season to date: 26 carries for 371 yards and 5 TDs | 2 receptions for 42 yards

Highlights: vs. Butler

 

Isaac “Spike” Sowells (Male, OL/DL)

Registered a pair of sacks and helped pave the way for Chayce Burton and Antonio Harris to average 7 yards per carry against St. X.

Season to date: 9 tackles | 2 sacks | Male averages 236 rushing yards per game 

Highlights: vs. The X-Men

 

Luke Pennington (Sayre, QB)

Pennington is up to 59 touchdown passes since his last interception after throwing four during a blowout of Ludlow. His touchdown throws outnumbered his incompletions by two.

Season to date: 44/61 for 551 yards and 9 TDs with 0 INTs | 2 rushing TDs 

 

Photo by Ryan Hermens for the Herald Leader.

Brock Coffman (Sayre, ATH)

Coffman was on the receiving end of two of his quarterback's four touchdown tosses against Ludlow and totaled 128 yards on nine catches. He was also a force on defense in run support and laying the wood to opposing receivers.

Season to date: 22 receptions for 277 yards and 5 TDs | 11 tackles | 1 INT 

Highlights: vs. Ludlow

[Purple88]

This is an incredible amount of work!  Thank you @DevilMayCare!  

The Mr. Football Award is very prestigious and rightfully so!

Very glad BGPs does it right covering it in a manner reflective of the award!

And they finally announce the award in a timely manner, which is a plus now.

Well done!

[DevilMayCare]

3 hours ago, DevilMayCare said:

Cortez Stone (Central, RB)

Cortez returned from a week off by shredding the Butler Bears for 229 yards and 3 TDs on 15 carries. 

Season to date: 26 carries for 371 and 5 TDs | 2 receptions for 42 yards

Highlights: vs. Butler

Here's a brief snippet of Stone's work last week. The vision and lateral quicks on the first run 👀. Butler's #24 had him right up until he didn't. 

[Just Curious]

Did you all really move Connor Hodge from Christian Academy of Louisville off of this list?! Clearly the Louisville private school bias is alive and well here. Terrible reporting. 

[Cincinnati Cobra]

34 minutes ago, Just Curious said:

Did you all really move Connor Hodge from Christian Academy of Louisville off of this list?! Clearly the Louisville private school bias is alive and well here. Terrible reporting. 

I started reading the BGPreps Mr. Football Watchlist a few years prior to joining the site. I have never noticed any bias against including private school kids. And I would dare say there are more private school kids from Louisville who are included on the list year to year than private school kids from any other area of the state.

One thing I definitely have noticed is fans chiming in and saying, "I can't believe the disrespect against the kid from the school I follow," when somebody they like is left off the list. But claiming that there's disrespect or disregard for an entire set of schools from a specific region is certainly a new one.

Looked up the stats on Connor Hodge. Looks like he's an okay runner and not a bad passer at all. If you plug his stats into a NFL passer rating calculator, he's a 128.18 quarterback. Clay Hayden rates as a 122.67 quarterback against what is comparably a slightly stronger schedule than CAL has had. Brady Atwell (a private school kid, FYI) rates as a 125.31 passer and he's definitely a stronger running QB than Hodge with more rushing yards on fewer carries than any other QB on the list. Kade Elam rates as a 145.78 passer. Luke Pennington (another private school kid) rates as a 139.41 passer.

My guess is that they couldn't have a whole list made up of quarterbacks so they had to draw the line somewhere. Their judgment call scratched Connor Hodge. Sorry that offended you. For what it's worth, they mentioned 3 private school kids on their list of 10. Out of about 200 football programs in the state there are what, maybe a dozen of them that are private schools? So privates represent 6 percent of the football programs in Kentucky and private school kids represent 30% of the people on the BGPreps watchlist. Food for thought.

[DevilMayCare]

I'm just going to leave this here...

Taken from the preseason watchlist thread:

On 8/13/2024 at 1:55 PM, DevilMayCare said:

I say this every year, but it bears repeating… just because a player is absent from the watchlist for a week or two, does not mean they've been forgotten. Names will come and go in accordance with whether I believe their performance that week is newsworthy. And newsworthy goes both ways, good and bad. So if a certain player you root for, coach, or call son misses the watchlist for a couple of weeks, be patient. If he's good enough to make the watchlist in the first place, then he's good enough to find his way back.

 

[theguru]

Exactly what I thought of DMC, thanks. 

[DevilMayCare]

On 9/10/2024 at 2:44 PM, DevilMayCare said:

 

It's such a shame they got this wrong. Hayden dropped the ball right in Cusick's bread basket and the grab was at least as great as the throw. I must have watched this masterpiece 30 times while putting the watchlist together this week. Right place, right time for a man and his phone. 

[RememberTheTigers24]

8 hours ago, DevilMayCare said:

It's such a shame they got this wrong. Hayden dropped the ball right in Cusick's bread basket and the grab was at least as great as the throw. I must have watched this masterpiece 30 times while putting the watchlist together this week. Right place, right time for a man and his phone. 

Erdman’s bread basket**

Also, woman and her phone**

Video was taken by Angie Erdman (mom of Luke) who takes pictures for the team, just so happened to have her phone out for this! 

Throw was amazing, catch was incredible, especially to keep the 1 foot in bounds. That would have gave Luke Erdman a 4 touchdown game! The ref that missed the call reached out and admitted a missed call and apologized. 

[RememberTheTigers24]

2 hours ago, RememberTheTigers24 said:

Erdman’s bread basket**

Also, woman and her phone**

Video was taken by Angie Erdman (mom of Luke) who takes pictures for the team, just so happened to have her phone out for this! 

Throw was amazing, catch was incredible, especially to keep the 1 foot in bounds. That would have gave Luke Erdman a 4 touchdown game! The ref that missed the call reached out and admitted a missed call and apologized. 

Correction, I guess it was taken by a sideline reporter, not Angie. I was wrong on that part!

[DevilMayCare]

2 hours ago, RememberTheTigers24 said:

Correction, I guess it was taken by a sideline reporter, not Angie. I was wrong on that part!

Thanks for the correction on the receiver. I saw Cusick's name in an attached tweet and assumed that was him in the video.