’26 QB is coming off a very productive junior year
Mason Griffin is looking to make a run at All-State QB in 2025. If he continues to improve from ’24 to ’25 as strikingly as he improved from ’23 to ’24, then the sky really is the limit. Griffin passed for 2,199-yards in his 10-games of action for an average of nearly 220-yards passing a game. Griffin made his district’s first team and threw for 18-TDs while completing 64.5% of his passing attempts. Griffin led his team to a six (6) win season and a berth in the playoffs for the first time in years. Join all this with his 6’4,” frame, his 215-pounds of bulk, and his 4.0-GPA and it looks as though it might be a “feeding frenzy” for his services at the next level across the commonwealth of Kentucky.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
London, KY: Have you ever heard of a mason jar? A mason jar comes in a variety of “other” names, like canning jar, preserves jar, or even fruit jar.
Mason jars are glass jars used in home canning to preserve food. They were named after their inventor, John Landis Mason, who applied for and received a patent for the product in 1858.
The jar’s mouth has a screw thread on its outer perimeter to accept a metal ring or band. When screwed down, it presses a separate, stamped, steel, disc-shaped lid against the jar’s rim creating a pressurized, impenetrable seal.
Mason Griffin, much like the jar bearing his “Christian name,” has an impenetrable hold (it would appear) on South Laurel’s QB-1 job entering the coming season. If what he did as a junior is taken into account, the confidence the team has in his ability to do the job is well warranted.
South Laurel, by South Laurel standards, is coming off a very good year. South was 6-4 in ’24 and lost on the road at Madison Southern by 14-points in the playoffs’s first round.
The last time South Laurel had been to the playoffs was 2018. Donnie Burdine, Jr. was coaching the team and the Cardinals lost by 20 at Harlan County.
2024 was the first trip to the playoffs for South Laurel since 2018
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As you can see, making the playoffs last season was no small accomplishment. It is why the program turned over its reigns to John Hines in the first place. Hines delivered.
Speaking of delivering, Griffin had quite the year. Griffin (6’4,” 215) threw for 2,199-yards in 10-games with 18-passing TDs. Griffin scored a couple of TDs on the ground and completed 64.5% of his passing attempts. Perhaps the most impressive statistic is Griffin’s 4.0 GPA.
Griffin works offseason with Next Up 7X7 and is in the throws (pun intended) of a very productive offseason. If Griffin continues to improve along his present arc, the Cardinals may be looking to take a run at a district title in ’25 and an even deeper playoff run at year’s end.
Coming about full circle, Mason Griffin is doing all the things one would believe to be necessary to hasten his development as a QB. Mason’s continued improvement will form a pretty tight lid on his hopes for trotting out, as QB-1, when the ’25 campaign opens play.
Matter of fact, we might even say this particular Mason-jar has its threads pretty tightly screwed down on the Cardinal’s rim from the perspective of the QB position. That should form the same type impenetrable seal for which Masons have become famous for either jarring or quarterbacking.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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