Nester is a freaking ball player, Son!
Braylon Nester is just a freaking ball player. We really have no other way to say or write this. Nester is 5’10,” 180-pounds and is being recruited as both a RB and an ATH. Playing 6A football a year ago, Nester gained over a thousand yards, led the team in scoring with 90-points, and contributed on both sides of the scrimmage line in spite of his defensive snaps being limited by his relative importance on the offensive side of the scrimmage line. Nester averaged 7.26 yards a carry rushing, and 13.39-yards per reception, making him a threat to “break it” anytime he was given opportunity. On defense, Nester forced a fumble, recovered a fumble, registered a TFL, and picked off a pass. Like we said…Ball Playa!
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Winchester, KY: We have just closed the books on a glorious 2025 football season. We crowed four champions who didn’t win titles in ’24 (KCD, LCA, Boyle County, and Owensboro), re-crowned a couple of teams who repeated (Trinity, three straight; and CAL, four straight), and celebrated brilliant accomplishments from some individual players.
As ’26 looms, we will be looking for players on whom we may well have missed in our season ending all-state teams. One such player is Braylon Nester from George Rogers Clark.
Nester is one of those guys who is fast enough, big enough, quick enough, to beat your backside. Simply put, Braylon Nester, like Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia, Ole Miss’s Trenton Chambliss, or even Arizona State’s Cameron Skattebo, is just a fine freaking football player.
There is an element to football which can’t be quantified with measuring tape. There is something called heart. When you are getting laid out by grown men who weigh 250-pounds and run over 20-MPHs heart will be required, courage will be required, and not every basketball looking small forward has what is necessary.
Football isn’t as simple as being a certain height, with a certain head circumference, with hands a certain size, legs a certain length, and arms a certain length. If only it was that easy.
There will always be that unmeasurable, indescribable element to a football player which will make a guy who doesn’t look exactly right, still play right. The great equalizer in the sport of football is the part where you are getting hit in the mouth.
That is the moment you are determined worthy. That is the moment where we discover whether or not you even want to play this game. Like Baker Mayfield (another out of frame former star) once said, football really isn’t for everyone.
One never has enough “Nesters” on a roster
Friday Night Fletch
Nester is a fine football player. If you want to win championships, may we suggest getting as many “Nesters” on your roster as you can find.
Nester had a huge junior year playing 6A football. Nester logged 138-carries for 1,001 yards and 13-TDs. Nester rolled out of the backfield and corralled 13-receptions for 174 and 2 TDs. Nester led the team in scoring with 90-points.
That is quite a bit of production if that were all. While Nester was deemed too valuable to play much defense, he did play some defense. In limited snaps Nester found a way to contribute rather significantly on that side of the scrimmage line.
Nester forced a fumble, recovered a fumble, registered a TFL, and picked a pass. For a guy who registered five (5) tackles, that is quite a bit of what we commonly refer to as “speciality statistics.”
At the end of the day what is truly important, and the sine qua non of high school coaching, is a coach’s ability to use a team’s talents and abilities to put players in position to succeed. That is the goal, that is the destination. Coach Joe Chirico who has since moved over to 5A Montgomery County did just that…he put Nester in position to thrive and succeed. More importantly, when given the opportunity, Nester delivered.
Going into his senior year, one has to like Nester as an All-State candidate in the Large School division at the RB position. We would play him more on defense too. After all, in football, regardless of the classification, coaches need to “play their players!”
Seems like we have before heard that one. That is our take on it anyway. Then again, what would we know?
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball; reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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