There are those who are wondering. Well, here at KPGFootball let us remove all doubt. Charles Andrew Collins, running behind the “Big Blue Wave” with the receivers and backs all getting downfield and getting involved in the run-game, is on the cusp of a Kentucky State High School record for yards gained per carry. The present mark is held by Belfry’s Taveon Hunter.
If you will glance above, that is the PR poster which came out and was spread across the commonwealth of Kentucky announcing Taveon’s breaking the previous record of Ryan Timmons from Franklin County. The record requires the RB to have played in 8 games and have carried the football 75-times.
Taveon, in 2017, carried the football 78-times for Belfry High School, over 13-games, gaining 1,285 yards. Hunter scored 15 TDs over his 78 carries. Taveon averaged, in 2017, 16.47-yards a carry, besting the previous record of Ryan Timmons of 15.73-yards per carry.
“Geeny” Collins has gained 1,289 yards in 80 rushing attempts over 11-games but has scored 29-rushing TDs over 80 attempts or a “home-run”every 2.76 swings of the bat to put it in baseball terms. That is 16.1125 yards per rushing attempt and, if the season were to stop today, he would the second all-time, IN KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HISTORY, in yards averaged per attempt.
As it is, Collins has an excellent chance of breaking the record by Taveon Hunter before the year is finished. What may also be a record, though we haven’t check it out, is a RB scoring a TD every 2.76-carries over an entire season.
Collins, last year playing for Anderson County, gained 1,474 yards from scrimmage in only 131-carries with 21 rushing TDs to lead the 5A classification, commonwealth-wide, in yards-per-rushing attempt. In 2018, Collins averaged 11.25-yards per attempt and scored a TD-rushing every 6.24-carries in numbers which were extraordinary, themselves, but pale in comparison to what he has done, in 2018, for Breathitt County high school.
We here at KPGFootball thought there might just be a subscriber or two who would want to know about this senior running-back having a story-book season in his return to the Riverbank. So much for the saying “One can’t go home, again.”
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is HB Lyon, reminding all of you ballers out there that #WeGotUCovered and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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