If there is one thing we have learned at KPGFootball, it is we aren’t that great at titling articles. We believe our content is both informative and well written but coming up with a catchy title often eludes us.
We know the above title is longer than we would have liked. Of course we are covering a football player, and, make no mistake about this, Forehand is a player listed among the elite players at his position anywhere in Kentucky, who has a longer than normal name. You might even say his name is as long as the previous sentence.
With this particular prospect, you have to include the suffix “Jr.” The reason is because “Sr.,” who resigned his high paying job to help guide his son’s college path, is very well known around Louisville, Kentucky too.
Now, we know typing a name as long as “Christopher Forehand, Jr.” can be burdensome. It is an exercise a sports-writer is advised to undertake however burdensome he may find it. There just can’t be any legitimate discussion of top-flight Kentucky DB’s, in the Class of 2021, which doesn’t include this guy.
Forehand is measured at 5-8 and weighs a stout 175 pounds. When he attended the Rivals combine in Cincinnati, Ohio, he recorded a 4.653-second, fully-automated, 40-yard dash. He also short-shuttled in a blistering 4.091-seconds. Forehand dominated the “L-cone” drill almost as much as he blistered the short-shuttle, registering a 6.815-second time.
If you follow this site, you know the L-cone and the short-shuttle more accurately describe the type of athlete a prospect is than his 40 time. The forty-yard-dash measures “straight-line” speed only. DB’s have to be able to flip their hips and change speeds both quickly and seamlessly.
Christopher broad jumped, this summer, 113-inches. That is impressive hip-explosion for an athlete who is, himself, only 68-inches tall. At a recent UK prospect camp, Forehand’s vertical was measured at 34-inches, which physically corroborates his registered running speeds.
Forehand carries a 3.175 GPA in Honors Classes and hopes to major in Broadcast-Journalism in college. Forehand has pursued appropriate academic course work to insure his preparedness for this course of study, while at Trinity, as this will be his third straight year during which he has enrolled in those classes.
Forehand trains with the Aspirations Fitness Institute and its super-fitness-training guru Chris Vaughn. Since working with Vaughn, Forehand has seen a steady rise in his performance on the track which will correlate, this Fall, onto the football field.
Forehand was a member of Trinity’s 4X100 relay, as its second leg. At a track meet at Male this spring, the relay turned in a 43.02-second time. That time is the fourth, all-time, for a program which boasts former relay members like James Quick and Rondale Moore.
Like so many athletes who choose to attend Trinity High School, it isn’t uncommon at all to not see much action on Friday nights until your Junior year. However, Forehand’s class of athletes haven’t lost a single game since entering the school, going undefeated both as freshmen and on the JV over its first two years. They have won 17 straight games together and have don’t expect to encounter difficulty winning as varsity players.
It is definitely time for Forehand to shine this upcoming season on Friday night. Trinity will scrimmage Dekel Crowdus’ Frederick Douglass team this pre-season. We will get to see Forehand go head-to-head with both the top WR and overall prospect in Kentucky’s 2021 class.
If this camp/combine season has shown anything regarding Christopher Forehand, Jr., it has shown he appears both ready and physically capable of stepping up to such challenges. Maybe, when his playing days are through, he can join KPGFootball and teach us how to “pen” catchier titles.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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