Predicting his emergence as one of 2022’s very best down, defensive linemen is anything by a “Knee-jerk” reaction!
This magazine wrote an article in January of this year boldly proclaiming Bridger Knee was going to kill it in 2019 for the Purples of Bowling Green (Sr.) High School. Eight months later, we would like to double-down on the prediction.
Knee was 6-0 and weighed 220 when we wrote about him in January. Now, he has grown an inch and put on 15-solid-pounds of muscle. He still wears No. 59, he’s still super-explosive, he’s still an elite down-lineman, Kentucky-wide, in the 2022-class.
Knee got 7 games of varsity run in 2018 for a program many consider the class of Kentucky’s 5A classification. Last season, in both JV and freshman football, the kid absolutely was unblock-able. He killed it.
That was then. What does he figure to do this year? Well, one thing is for certain, we don’t expect him to be logging any JV reps.
Bridger Knee has run with the varsity’s first-team in two preseason scrimmages. In the second scrimmage, against defending Class 6A, State Football Champion, Male High School (Louisville), Bridger registered a QB-sack, 2 tackles for loss (TFLs), and several stops on the night before the teams turned the scrimmage over to the youngsters.
In our January article, KPGFootball predicted Bridger Knee a “…day one, snap one, first team player” for the Purples in 2019. Day one, snap one is Saturday night against Father Ryan High School out of Nashville, Tennessee in Bowling Green, Kentucky at Harbaugh Stadium on the campus of WKU.
Will he be trotted out with the first team defense for its first series against Father Ryan? Well, we’re so confident he will, we wrote this article this morning just to remind you what we said back in January.
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is Coach H.B. Lyon, reminding all of you we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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