@BrocBridges25 from @FCHSPILOTSFB, a real find if you’re hunting Kentucky’s best 2021’s (featured photo credit: Charles Choate)…

I was talking around the magazine just this morning with one of regular contributors and selection committee members about 2021 kids around Kentucky flying under the radar. You have some of Kentucky’s best 2021s without even a single offer right now and that is anywhere from curious to strange.

Recruiting services, who incidentally know absolutely nothing about Kentucky HS football, are compiling lists of 2021 “top-prospects.” However, they are consistently leaving off their lists some of 2021’s very best high school players and have included some players rated way too low and beneath some players who literally can’t hold the first player’s jock-strap on a football field.

Needless to say, there are just glaring omissions. With some of the players they are failing to rank, our point of their knowing nothing is being made for us. One of us doesn’t know about what he’s talking. We think it is they. You make up your own mind for yourself, we aren’t here to sell you.

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Anyway, both this guy and I mentioned, almost simultaneously, the kid from Hickman, Kentucky, Broc Bridges. This guy has seen him on film and I have both seen film and watched him perform live. We agree he is one of 2021’s very best at both his offensive position (TE) and where he is deployed defensively (DE).

As the guy I was talking to is the father of Kentucky’s very best DE in Kentucky High School football, his opinion of Bridges’ DE highlights was the type I would particularly credit. He knows one when he sees one, definitely.

Broc is 6-3 and weighs 230-pounds and is filling out all the time, adding good weight to a lengthy frame. It feels funny calling the prospect “overlooked.” After all, over the course of his sophomore and junior years, he has twice made All-Conference (WKC, 2018 & 2019) and was 1st team this past year on the Paducah Sun-TimesAll Purchase-area Team.

Bridges had 58-tackles at DE this past season, with 11.5 TFLs, and 9 QB-sacks. He also, in only 11 games (Team was 6-5). He forced a fumble and recovered a pair. Offensively at TE, Bridges was the teams primary target in the passing game leading the team with 25-receptions for 375-receiving yards and 3 TD receptions.

His Pilots have been hot too. This past season, Fulton County finished a winning season and got out of the gate 3-0 for the first time in 33-years. The middle school, freshman, and JV squads are rolling and the cupboard is getting restocked with quality talent every year since turning over the program to Coach James Bridges, himself a former collegiate who played his college football at Murray State.

We have it on good authority Bridges is being pursued and wooed by several Ohio Valley Conference teams and is comfortably a Division-I, FCS take in our estimation. That alone makes him number among the top high school talents in Kentucky’s class of 2021.

So how do we know about him with all the other guys missing the mark with this guy so badly. Are you kidding? This isn’t the first time we have hit the nail on the head where others have completely missed. We actually do it all the time. Maybe you should read us more!

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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Have coached at the high school and middle school level. Have worked in athletic administration. Conceal my identity to enable my candor on articles published by this magazine. Only members of the editorial board are aware of my true identity.

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