’26 TE is climbing up recruiting boards every second of every day
We have talked to quite a few out there who are mighty high on Jayden Travis from Madisonville North Hopkins. What’s not to like? The kid is 6’3,” 230 pounds, has solid power numbers, is an honor student, is both explosive and “twitchy,” runs precise routes, and catches about every ball that hits his mitts. Take into account his regularly clipping off sub-five forties, and this guy is a take at many various levels of next level football. Travis is headed into a big senior year and he is being courted heavily.
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Madisonville, KY: So many of our stories begin this way. We got a call from a college coach who wanted to know what we knew about ’26 TE, Jayden Travis, from Madisonville North Hopkins?
We told this coach what we knew. Travis has a good frame. Travis has good speed. Travis has exceptional hands, is a good route runner, and an exceptional student.
Couple that with a great football IQ coming from a great family and he’s the total package. His response was, “Sign me up.”
That sound you just heard was chalk writing Travis’s name on the updated recruiting board. That happens often around the offices of Kentucky Prep Gridiron.
Austin Alexander (Cooper High) was the premier TE in the KHSAA a year ago. Of course, he has moved on to play major, FBS level, Division I college football (UNC-Chapel Hill).
With Austin Alexander graduated, we like Jayden Travis as perhaps the best TE playing high school football in the 5A classification across the commonwealth. Western Kentucky News is high on the young man too. That is why this article was commissioned.
What’s not to like? [Travis] is the total package.
Friday Night Fletch
What’s not to like? Like we said, he’s the total package.
Travis is 6’3,” 230-pounder who caught 25-passes in a run-first attack in ’24 with three (3) TDs receiving. Travis finished fifth on the team in “scoring.”
Travis also was instrumental in a rushing attack which gained over 3,200 yards and scored 42-rushing TDs. Travis accounted for three (3) of the team’s 11 TDs through the air.
That is approximately 28% production out of that one player. Pretty darn good if you ask us.
Travis performs in the weight room as well as the field. Travis bench presses 250, squats 365, pulls or “deadlifts” 440, and power cleans 280. Strong, powerful, and explosive are lethal combinations for HS tight-ends.
Travis has soft, receptive hands; a thick and long enough frame to effectively work the middle of the defense with considerable advantage, and is fast enough (4.9-second, 40-yard dash) to create match-up problems with opposing defensive coordinators hoping their 2nd line of defense can contain this offensive weapon. As for smarts, how about his 3.6-GPA.
Yessir, we can report, and report truthfully, sans bias or slant, that Jayden Travis is very likely to perform at an all-state level over his coming senior season. Extra, extra, read all about it.
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