Football coaches, especially young football coaches, are always discussing the amount of dog in a football player. There was an old cliché once which read that it wasn’t the size of the dog in the fight which counted most but the size of the fight in the dog…or something along those lines. It may well have been from that axiom that it became first said this player or that one had a lot of dog in him.
Regardless of its origins, universally in football both players and coaches alike either know or pretend to know the meaning of a player’s being described as a dog. If one were really curious about the concept all they would have to do is look to the mountains at Isaac Dixon from Belfry High School. That kid is straight dog.
Dixon, who has made the KPGFootball freshman and sophomore All-State teams, ran the ball 100 times in 2018 gaining 1,393 yards and scoring 17 rushing TDs. Dixon caught 6 of the team’s 29 receptions for 184 yards receiving and 3 TDs receiving. Defensively, he led the team with 5 interceptions for a whopping 247 yards in returns with 3 of the 5 picks being returned to pay-dirt. He recovered a fumble and collected 33 tackles from his corner-slot. Hell, the kid scored 152 points for Belfry last year.
We had Isaac at our All-State Mountain Combine the summer prior to his sophomore season. We don’t know what he presently measures but last summer he measured at 5-10 and weighed 170 pounds. He ran the 40-yard dash in a blistering, hand-timed, 4.45-seconds.
He finished the pro-agility shuttle (5-10-5) in 4.23 seconds. He ran the L-Cone drill, during which he fell down on both attempts, in 6.7-seconds for the second fastest at the combine.
As for strength, Isaac, though only having just finished his freshman year in high school, and only weighing 170 pounds, still managed to rep the high school bench press repetition weight of 185 pounds 7 times. That computes to an approximate, one-rep, bench-press maximum lift of 229 pounds.
Dixon dominated the one-on-ones and seven-on-seven portions of the combine whether he was defending or in the pattern which led to his being named the Combine’s Most Outstanding Player. He also took top corner honors.
If there is a single 2021 kid who should be holding offers, and there are several who are, the first kid in the class who should be offered should be Belfry’s Isaac Dixon. We don’t know the status of his offer sheet but we do know he’s the best football player in the commonwealth of Kentucky.
Isaac Dixon is dynamic, explosive, powerful, fast, and quick. He also may be leading the entire commonwealth in dog. Dixon’s time isn’t tomorrow, it is RIGHT NOW.
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is F.W. Long, reminding all of you ballers out there to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE.
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