2025 Mr. Football Watchlist (12/7)

[DevilMayCare]

🏆State Championships🏆 

Evan Hampton (RB, Owensboro)
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🗞️ | State title ✔️. Finals MVP ✔️. 2,000 yards ✔️.

It may be time to give the Devil his due. Hampton closed out his high school career on a high note, running for three touchdowns against Pulaski County to deliver Owensboro's first championship in almost forty years. He totaled 734 yards from scrimmage and twelve touchdowns combined in the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final rounds of the playoffs. The Mr. Football picture was murky to begin the season, but Hampton has done his best to make it clear as day with every churn of his legs down the stretch.

2025 Season: 173 carries for 2,018 yards and 31 touchdowns | 288 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns

 

Ji’Dyn Smith-Hisel (RB, Boyle County)
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🗞️ | Boyle’s mighty mouse donned the cape one last time to help secure the school's thirteenth state title, running for 183 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 29 carries. Smith-Hisel shouldered a heavy post-season load with 80 rushes totaling 786 yards over the final three rounds, a workhorse effort to cap one of the most productive seasons ever by a Rebel running back.

2025 Season: 215 carries for 1,791 yards and 18 touchdowns | 229 receiving yards and 1 touchdown

 

Miles Edge (RB/LB, Owensboro Catholic)
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🗞️ | For as quickly as he climbed the ladder in recent weeks, Edge's season met an abrupt, anticlimactic end. He managed three touches for five yards against LCA before exiting the game in the first quarter with an apparent upper body injury and never returned. 
2025 Season: 173 carries for 1,222 yards and 20 touchdowns | 40 receptions for 442 yards and 4 touchdowns | 101 tackles | 14.5 TFL | 5.5 sacks | 3 forced fumbles

 

Others For Consideration

Jacob Savage (RB/LB, Ryle)
🗞️ | If anyone is going to steal Hampton’s late season shine, it's the state's best two-way player. His grip on Mr. Football was tightening before injuring an ankle against Frederick Douglass, opening the door for someone to walk through. 
2025 Season: 163 carries for 1,222 yards and 24 touchdowns | 204 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns | 112 tackles | 15 TFL | one fumble forced and one recovered | 2 interceptions

Wyatt Robbins (QB, Murray)
🗞️ | Another injury case. At his peak, Robbins was a legit threat to bring Mr. Football back to WKY for the first time in over a decade. That peak wasn't sustainable and he missed the state finals entirely. 
2025 Season: 187/269 (69%) for 3,199 yards and 35 touchdowns with 5 interceptions | 533 rushing yards and 4 touchdowns

Cam O'Hara (QB, Cooper)
🗞️ | A remarkable junior season was always going to be a daunting task to follow up. Losing two DI targets made the hill impossibly steep. O'Hara ranks #2 all-time in career touchdown passes with 146 and #5 in career yards with 11,227.
2025 Season: 134/229 (58%) for 2,231 yards and 26 touchdowns with 5 interceptions | 3 rushing touchdowns

[DevilMayCare]

The other two major awards have already been handed out. Mr. Football likely comes down to these two.

Evan Hampton - KY Gatorade POY

 

Jacob Savage - Paul Hornung Award Winner

[Brown]

Hampton with 12 touches for 99 yards and 3 TD's in the state championship.  MVP Award in 5A State Championship.  11 rushes for 91 yards and 3 TD's with 1 reception for 8 yards.

KY Gatorade Player of the Year, 2024 5A district 1 POY.  #27 RB in USA and #1 in KY by Espn and Rivals.

Season:

173 rushes for 2,018 yards and 31 TD's (11.7 yards per carry)

19 receptions for 288 yards and 3

192 touches for 2,306 yards and 34 TD's

Career:

517 carries for 5,294 yards and 82 TD's (10.2 yards per carry)

78 receptions for 922 yards and 9 TD's

1 punt return TD

595 touches for 6,216 yards and 92 TD's

 

KHSAA records:

22nd in KHSAA history in points scored with 552

17th in KHSAA history in TD's scored with 92

19th in KHSAA history in rushing TD's scored with 82

 

OHS records:

1st in Career rushing TD's at 82

1st in rushing TD's in a season at 31

1st in points scored in Career with 552 (Higgs in 2nd at 450)

1st in points scored in season with 204

1st in rushing yards in a game at Owensboro with 326

2nd most Rushing yards in Career with 5,294 yards (behind only Mark Higgs 6,721) - Hampton has 263 less carries than Higgs

3rd in season rushing YPC with 11.7 - behind only Justin Miller 13.6 (NY JETS) and Immonte Owsley at 11.8

3rd most rushing yards in a season at 2,018 behind only Mark Higgs final 2 seasons with 2,018

 

[In the Game]

22 hours ago, DevilMayCare said:

The other two major awards have already been handed out. Mr. Football likely comes down to these two.

Evan Hampton - KY Gatorade POY

 

Jacob Savage - Paul Hornung Award Winner

Jacob Savage can also add 6A Player of the Year to his resume'

[Voice of Reason]

On 12/7/2025 at 11:28 AM, DevilMayCare said:

The other two major awards have already been handed out. Mr. Football likely comes down to these two.

Evan Hampton - KY Gatorade POY

 

Jacob Savage - Paul Hornung Award Winner

Two very deserving candidates and IMO the choice can't be knocked if it is either one.

[Devils Fan]

2 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Two very deserving candidates and IMO the choice can't be knocked if it is either one.

The tie breaker would have to be the man that carried his team to the 1st title victory in 39years. 
 

Wouldve been nice to see a senior season Head-to-Head. Would’ve been a heck of a game.

[theguru]

Does anyone have a lists of the finalist? 

[theguru]

1. Kace Eastridge QB Campbellsville

2. Kris Hughes ATH Somerset

3. Markezz Hightower RB Madisonville North Hopkins

4. Jacob Savage RB/LB Ryle

5. Cam OHara QB Cooper

6. Marlon Harbin ATH St. Xavier

7. Evan Hampton RB Owensboro

8. Wyatt Robbins QB Murray

9. Ji'Dyn Smith-Hisel RB Boyle County 

https://bluegrasspreps.com/forums/topic/255924-mr-football-finalists/