If one is discussing top corners in Kentucky, particularly in the rising senior class, the discussion begins with Christopher Forehand, Jr. from Louisville’s Trinity High School. It may well end there too.
Chris is a kid who made our undergraduate All-State teams. He is a guy who has been hurt by Louisville Trinity’s refusal to register stats on the KHSAA website as, had they done so, he undoubtedly would have made a minimum of one of the All-State Football teams by now, if not two.
We can tell you this…there is an AP-voter out there dead-set on voting for him this coming year for the AP-team, provided KPGFootball can get some help tracking his stats. Aside from statistics (which we don’t doubt he has an abundance of, we just aren’t in a position to register the stats ourselves), he has every thing else.
First of all, in the frame department, Chris stacks up well at corner. He’s 5-10 with plenty of length, weighs a solid 180-pounds (He will come up some levels and stick you), and his frame has plenty of room on it for late growth. As far as athleticism, man-o-man!
We don’t have times on him more current than what he did last summer in 2019 in Cincinnati at a Rivals combine, but we don’t have any reason to think he has gotten slower or less quick. He’s taller than last summer and his legs are longer. He’s probably appreciably faster than he was then.
At the Rivals combine, Chris ran a 4.653, 40-yard dash on the laser. His pro-agility shuttle, which measures his change-of-direction speed and gives you an idea about his ability to flip his hips and get over the top, the kid blistered a 4.091 (laser). Forehand was 6.815 (laser) in the 3-cone and had a 113-inch broad jump (9’5″). In case anyone should doubt the 40-time, his vertical was 32.4.
With Forehand, Jr. patrolling the back-end of the defense in 2019, Trinity finished 13-2 and won the Class 6A Football Championship in Kentucky. Depending on the level of college recruiting him, chances are moderate he will have seen and played against at Louisville Trinity roughly the same or better talent than he will see in college.
Trinity plays a national/regional schedule, in addition to playing in Kentucky’s largest classification and probably its toughest district. The Shamrocks annually play some of the best football teams in America, particularly the Midwestern portion.
There are numerous college football teams competing at various levels in and around Kentucky I would think would struggle beating Trinity in a football game. This is a reflection of how good Trinity really is more so than anything else.
Forehand is not just a student of the game either. He is a student carrying around a 3.4 GPA at a prestigious school which provides college-based curriculum. Regardless of the difficulty of the school where he will next attend, he has been well prepared physically and mentally to play at the next level. Chris will handle the academic load like he handles the physics of its football team…like he’s already been there.
Forehand is in the plans of several high-level football programs who are regularly communicating with him and evaluating him as the ink drys on this article. His getting offered by several of them, and signing with one of them, before the 2020-season culminates, is a “when” proposition and not an “if.”
College caliber, cover-corners are in short supply. Here’s one tailor-made for the college game. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. There aren’t too many like him out there.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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