One thing we have discovered at KPGFootball is Ricco Hughes, Director of Kentucky Future Stars football, knows a football player when he is looking at one. In 2016, he picked Cynthiana’s Connor Marshall to the Team Kentucky Future Stars team. That Team Kentucky beat Team Tennessee 44-27 in a game not really that close. Coming forward to today, it would appear Connor Marshall has rounded into a present star from a future one.
Why shouldn’t Connor Marshall be a present-day, high school football star? He has the frame at 6-3, 280-pounds to really move some meat off the line of scrimmage from his guard slot, with the frame to slide out to tackle and get some snaps there too when needed.
We always talk about pedigree in football. Well, Connor comes from a football playing family. Connor has two of uncles, Bubba and Cliff, both of whom played football for present Harrison County HC Marshall “Ray” Graham. With his now getting to coach the nephew, Connor, that is multiple generations of “Marshalls” Coach Graham has had the privilege of coaching.
Cliff Marshall signed with the University of Louisville before getting hurt. Coach Petrino at Louisville allowed Cliff to remain on scholarship and help out in the weight room. Cliff became a strength coach and is employed by the University of Indiana, strengthening the basketball team.
Connor Marshall helped anchor an offensive front for the Thoroughbreds which, in Graham’s first year back at the helm, ran the football for 3,154 yards from scrimmage and 37 rushing TDs in 12 games on its way to a 7-5 finish and a district championship. Twenty-Eighteen was Coach Graham’s first year back at the helm of the team he had before coached before leaving for an extended interval. The intervening, Coach Graham-less years weren’t kind to Harrison County football fans, putting it mildly. We are quite sure they are glad he’s back.
Connor was solid defensively in 2018 as a two-way player. Marshall had 24 tackles, two behind the line of scrimmage, in limited defensive run. We see Connor Marshall as a next-level, offensive guard and we believe there will be a next level for this prospect should he want one.
Connor is a low-waisted kid, especially for 6-3. This works to give him a powerful and explosive bottom half, hard to offset once he gets his feet churning after he collisions the first-level defender. Kids built like Connor are often powerful, explosive, quick-twitchers who are dynamite in short powerful bursts.
With the season literally days away, it would appear Connor Marshall is coming into his own. It would appear Harrison County is on the “come up” with Coach Marshall Ray Graham back at the helm. It would appear there are some defensive linemen out there with their collective work cut out for them trying to halt this down-hill freight train. It would appear the time is now…both for Connor Marshall and the Harrison Thoroughbreds. It would appear Connor Marshall has come into his own.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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Bubba and Cliff are his Uncles.