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We like featuring the “bigs” on our publication. True, Foster Jackson plays linebacker on defense, but he is an offensive guard pulling double duty on a 5-4, 6A football team. Not a ton of kids play on both sides of the football as well as Jackson in Kentucky 6A. Hopkinsville has featured a productive and balanced attack this season through the first nine (9) games. The Tigers have thrown for 1,818-yards and 19-TDs. The Tigers have rushed for 1,411-yards and 24-TDs. The Tigers have scored 349-points, in 9 games, or 39-or so points per game all behind an offensive front on which Foster Jackson has been a fixture and a star. Now, Jackson gets a free breakfast!
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Hopkinsville, KY: We really didn’t know how to handicap the Hoptown/County game this year. We knew Hoptown’s roster was considerably larger, deeper, and more talented and we knew the kids from both sidelines would give their all in the game. It is one thing for it to be the last installment in a series we all grew up watching and it is another to play against kids you grew up playing both with and against since your junior pro football (or Bud Hudson Football) days.
Hoptown has some “Dudes.” James Bradley, Jr. and Aiden Jesse are two of those “Dudes” and both are enjoying great senior seasons. Tremayne Clay (’27) is a “Dude” and looks to be a prominent player on the consolidated school’s roster in year one before he heads off to play college football.
Hopkinsville has some “Dudes” upfront too. One of the “Dudes” is Kevon Johnson, about whom we have before written a feature. The other is Foster Jackson, the focus of today’s installment.
Jackson plays along the interior offensive line and is a second level defender. Jackson, like Johnson, has been pulling yeoman’s work upfront for an offensive ball club as potent as any in the 6A classification’s first district.
We will start off with Jackson’s “measurables.” Jackson is “undersized” at 5’11,” 200-pounds but if you think he is the first under six-footer, around 200-pounder to be a Friday Night Hero at the offensive guard position you may not know enough about high school football to enjoy our publication.
Hopkinsville is as good as any other team in 6A’s first district
Friday Night Fletch
Jackson squats 350-pounds, power cleans 225, and has enough “punch” to gain separation both from defenders he is charged to block and offensive linemen sent second level to block him. The team has faired well with him working up-front with his “brothers” along the OL.
In the Christian County game, the Tigers struck for 48-points. Jackson, in addition to what he contributed to the OL, registered five (5) tackles and a QB-sack on defense.
For the year, the team has thrown for 1,818-yards and 19-TDs. Those numbers are stout for a team which graduated a senior a season ago (Aiden King) who took virtually every snap at QB for the ’24 season and opened the year with its RB (James Bradley, Jr.) running offense from the QB slot. The emergence of Jasiah McCarley (’28 QB) this season has greatly improved the on-field product and is a credit to the OL clearing the path and protecting the young signal caller.
The team has rushed for 1,411-yards and 24-TDs rushing. The Tigers have scored 349-points in nine (9) games, good for 39 (or so) points per outing.
Those are right strong and balanced numbers for any offensive club. Particularly, a team which entered the year with many, many question marks and plenty of defections from off the roster walking across the graduation stage last spring.
Identifying a potential weapon like Foster Jackson , should certainly help get Hopkinsville High School ready for the challenges ahead. That is why Foster Jackson, is our Lasaters Coffee & Tea, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Player of the Week.
That being said, we feel it is high time for people around Hopkinsville, KY to take notice of this outstanding Tiger team and some of its outstanding performers. Hey Hoptown High, as far as Foster Jackson is concerned; it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee!
In an effort to help this prospect’s continued development, Foster Jackson may go, this Friday (October 31, 2025, All Hallow's Eve), to any of our area locations and be served a free drink of his choice and free breakfast or other sandwich/food item, completely free of charge!
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This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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