’28 two-way lineman ready to protect his teammates
There is nothing more noble than playing the offensive line in football. “Offensive line is the only position in all of sports where the sole purpose is to protect another player.” -John Strollo. John Strollo is an American football coach who has worked 14 different assignments over his coaching career, spanning some 35 years, at the high school and collegiate level. According to Coach Strollo, that’s why the position is so special. O-linemen just go to work. They just keep pushing. That’s why they tend to become great men, fathers, and husbands. We will buy all of that. It is the reason we are featuring one of the Appalachia’s very best, upfront, in this feature in ’28’s Tatyn “Tater” Skidmore.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
Link to Small School All-State FB Reveal Show
Lasaters Preseason Nifty-Nichols
Big Ass Fans from Lexington, Kentucky has a simple corporate goal. The company is “creating a more comfortable world,” one fan at a time.
The logo is the rear of a donkey (Fanny) swishing its tail back and forth. The trademarked logo is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate identities across the commonwealth and has come to represent commitment to quality, cutting-edge innovation, and product reliability.
Big Ass Fans is so much more than just a gigantic fan. It is gigantic quality, gigantic performance, and a gigantic commitment to reliability and innovation. Its size is far from the only selling point about our product.
Our product is a Kentucky Comfort Creator. These days, isn’t that exactly what Kentucky needs?
This week our feature is about Tatyn “The Tater” Skidmore. Skidmore is a rising junior, football star at Breathitt High School who played in all 13-games a year ago in a 10-3 campaign. We like Breathitt to make a run this coming season the “The Tater” is a huge reason for our optimism.
“Fanny” is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate logo
Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Jackson (Breathitt County), KY: There is a comedian who I love to watch perform. I haven’t seen him in a while. Perhaps he has retired.
His name is Ron White and one of his great stand-up specials was entitled, “A Little Unprofessional.” I recommend it.
In that particular special he tells of a time he was thrown out of a bar in New York City for being drunk and disorderly and taken down to the police station for questioning and processing. While there, the police accessed his criminal history.
According to Mr. White, he had a prior drunk and disorderly from when he was 17, growing up in Texas. The indiscretions of youth seem to surface at strange times.
Mr. White claimed the prior charge was the result of “profiling.” Mr. White said the police in his small hometown in Texas were indiscriminately pulling over every car that night “driving down the sidewalk.”
That night in Texas, the police had inquired as to any aliases by which Mr. White may have been previously known. This was a town of 400-citizens. The policeman asking him had know White his entire life. The two of them lived four doors down from the other.
Being 17, and not realizing the lasting impact one’s being a smart aleck might end up having, White told this officer White’s alias was “Tater Salad.” The officer dutifully included it in his report of the event.
That report surfaced again, on the second occasion, many years later. White told the police in New York words to the effect of “Well, you did it, boys; you have caught the Tater!”
It is a very funny bit. In today’s feature we too have caught the Tater. This Tater is vastly different from Ron White, though about as humorous. Our tater is “Tatyn Skidmore” from Breathitt High.
Skidmore is listed around 6′,1″ and weighs about 310-320-pounds. That is deceiving somewhat as his length makes him play taller than he lists. This kid plays both ways for Breathitt but has primarily been deployed (thus far) along the offensive front.
Numbers are hard to gauge for OL in high school. You kind of judge the position with how well the offense performs with the lineman deployed upfront. Breathitt has performed exceptionally behind the blocking of “The Tater” and his line mates.
In ’25, Skidmore had a handful of tackles but was more critically a cog in a front line which permitted the offenses wracking up 557-points (close to 43-points a game). The offense rushed for 2,751-yards and 48-TDs in 447-carries (6.2-yards a carry, a TD every 9.3-rushing attempts). The offense threw for 2,036-yards and 28-TDs while being intercepted only six (6) times.
Quarterbacks who have a nearly 5:1, TD to INT ratio, aren’t being made to hurry sufficiently. Where a HS QB is that efficient, it means the line is giving him time to make good decisions. Having an All-Stater at QB like Miles Hollon (’28) helps that efficiency.
Breathitt has plenty of athletic talent in its program and always seems to come up with prime talent. This has a lot to do with the Lumberjacks’s program and the excellent MS coaching these kids get growing up in Breathitt. Still, there are not a ton of Skidmore’s in any hallway, at any level of competition, throughout the Bluegrass.
In Skidemore, the Bobcats have a very versatile, athletic, active, powerful, and strong (as a bull) two-way lineman. We know the kid can contribute, this coming Fall, to a 2A team we expect will be smack-dab in the title hunt.
You know we love that.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball; reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
If you enjoyed this article and wish to gain full-access to the site, then subscribe monthly to Kentucky Prep Gridiron by following the prompts!
© The information contained on this site is the copyrighted intellectual property of KPGFootball. Any unauthorized dissemination of this material without the author’s express written consent is strictly prohibited!
Leave a Reply