Class of 2020’s Quinton Carlton moves to the “next level”

Getting to play football in college is a privilege. It also represents quite an achievement where played at any of the various levels.

The NCAA released some statistics in January of 2019 to buttress that fact. According to the regulatory authority of at least three levels of college football, only 6.9% of high school players play college football at all and at any level. Playing D-I occurs 2.7% of the time, and, by D-I we are throwing in the FCS with the FBS.

The chances of a college football player making it to the NFL is only 1.6%. The smarter money is on using football to get a top-flight education. Playing football for a living is a remote possibility regardless of where you get signed on to play in college.

Hopkinsville’s Quinton Carlton is among the 6.9%. KPGFootball couldn’t be prouder of him.

Quinton is a guy whose best football is ahead of him in spite of his having played at a very high level to date. Quinton is 6-1 and a svelte 230-pounds, especially for a player projected to play along the interior offensive line. Once he hits a college weight program and the program’s training table, his frame will fill out and become substantially thicker, more powerful, and more explosive.

Carlton played in 34 of Hopkinsville’s 36-games over the course of the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons. In 2019, helping to anchor a young and untested front, Carlton led an offense which scored 30-points a game and averaged 328-yards of total offense per outing.

Hopkinsville High School plays in the 1st District of the 4A classification. Carlton and his cohorts know all about playing in a tough league as the 1st district champion routinely makes deep playoff runs in the KHSAA football championship format.

It is fortuitous Carlton is accustomed to playing against tough competition. Quinton Carlton has just signed to play in college with Kentucky Christian University (KCU). KCU is an NAIA school located in Grayson, Kentucky which competes in one of the nation’s tougher conferences in the NAIA, the Mid-South.

The Mid-South Conference is one tough league among its NAIA brethren, boasting teams ranked among the country’s best. Lindsey Wilson (No. 4), University of the Cumberlands (No. 7), Keiser (No. 9), Reinhardt (No. 13), and Southeastern (No. 15), were all Mid-South teams in 2019 fitting the bill of being nationally elite. KCU is in the Mid-South’s Appalachian Division.

If you reading this work really hard, you too may get significant portions to all of your education financed at a University’s expense. You may be the next Quinton Carlton, it really is up to you.

Carlton put in the time. Carlton put in the effort. Carlton has made it to the big-time. KPGFootball couldn’t be prouder either.

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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