’27 OL growing into his immense frame
Colleges are impressed with size and length. If this is news to you, you may have stumbled across the wrong site for you. Christian Shackelford from Lexington’s Christian Academy has all the size and length any recruiter could possibly want. Shackelford is 6’7,” weighs a cool 290, and is projected to play along the offensive front at the next level. Shackelford got six (6) games of run as a sophomore which isn’t too bad considering LCA boasted the best offensive front in the KHSAA a season ago with D-1 guys all across the front. Shackelford has a little ways to go in the strength, power, and explosion categories but nothing a little more anatomical seasoning wouldn’t handle. With a 3.8 GPA, he has arrived academically.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Lexington, KY: Colleges love their offensive linemen long and tall. This is particularly true when you are aligned on the edge and responsible for intercepting an upfield pass rush from an end who may be clocking 40s in the 4.4s.
OL coaches want tall, mobile, OL with long, long arms and the core strength to sink and play the DE at his level without getting leveraged onto his big backside. One has to be a special athlete and particularly agile, with great feet, to play where we believe Christian Shackleford is headed, next level.
Shackleford is a rising junior who got six (6) games of run his sophomore season. With what he had stationed in front of him a season ago, getting six (6) games of varsity run isn’t bad at all.
LCA (Lexington Christian Academy) will need more from Shackelford this coming season. The Eagles will be breaking in a new head man in Oakley Watkins and his first chore will be replacing an entire front which was among Kentucky’s best at any classification a season ago.
LCA will need Shackelford. LCA will need Matthew Montgomery too (’28 OG/DL, 6’0,” 230).
That being said, both Shackelford and Montgomery will be a fine start. Shackelford is 6’7,” and tips the scales at 290-pounds. Montgomery lists his primary positions as OT, C, DT.
Shackelford’s awfully tall to play center. His defensive deployment being at DT tells us he has good feet, is plenty aggressive, and has good mobility for a young OL.
Perhaps chief among his skills is that 3.8 GPA. The offensive line isn’t for the dull witted. It is a “thinking man’s” deployment.
Offensive line is not the slot for “dummies”
Friday Night Fletch
LCA is coming off a fine year, though probably not by the Eagles’s standards. LCA was 11-3 in ’24 and dropped its semi-final to Beechwood in Fort Mitchell, KY.
The Eagles have been yearly in contention in the 2A classification and Doug Charles handing the reigns to his former OC, Oakley Watkins, will not slow anything from our perspective anyway. LCA still has LCA-type talent. The Eagles still have an incredible desire to win and a willingness to give forth a champions’s effort.
One this is for certain…6’7,” 290-pounders stationed across the front don’t hurt a single thing. Matter of fact, there is a legitimate argument to be made it is quite helpful.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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