Devin Kilgore, Class of 2020, Caldwell County HS

In the digital media business we can them “ghosts.” Ghosts are athletes who, in spite of their fine efforts and tremendous play, never grab any ink and, for all intents and purposes, don’t exist anywhere within the “public record.”

These are the players who don’t have Hudl film, don’t have Facebook accounts, don’t have Twitter pages, and who, when you run their names through the Google search engine, you get references to people of the same name from other parts of the country you know NOT to be they.

It isn’t uncommon for middle school players to be ghosts, at least before KPGFootball gets on the case. You usually don’t see All-State caliber players, entering their senior years, who are ghosts. When you do, the local media (us included) have “dropped the ball.”

We went to feature Devin Kilgore today. After all, the information we accessed indicated his being a two-sided star, along both the offensive and defensive fronts, for an 8-4 Caldwell County football team in 2018. There really aren’t any stats to access which indicate his play at offensive center, but he had 82 tackles, 20 tackles for loss, and 7 QB sacks at his DE position.

When we ran his name through the Google search engine we got two hits. Both hits had to do with his being named the Farmers Bank “Player of the Game” by YourSportsEdge.com for his play against Union County in an article which was published October 2, 2018.

Kilgore doesn’t have a Twitter page, doesn’t have a Hudl page, and his Facebook page has one picture. Incidentally, we cropped the one picture to use as both the feature photograph for this article and the photograph to the left of the first two or so paragraphs. We gleaned from his one picture he was both on the football team and had a steady girlfriend.

We checked on MaxPreps and he isn’t listed on either the 2018 or 2019 rosters as even having played for the team. Obviously, as he isn’t listed, there is no height, no weight, no stats, nothing.

So here we are, left to wonder how players in Kentucky, like Devin Kilgore, go un-recruited. Maybe it is because it takes Sherlock Holmes to determine his height and weight.

C’mon Kentucky! We have to do better than this crap.

This is a defensive end-offensive center playing for one of the most storied programs in all of Kentucky who (reportedly) had a monster 2018 season. For his efforts the media corp managed to hype him one time, all year.

Incidentally, kudos to YourSportsEdge.com. Without them, the entire Kentucky press corp would have been blanked on this player.

How does a guy have 82 tackles, 20 tackles behind the line of scrimmage, and 7 QB sacks and be omitted from the MaxPreps‘ roster…twice (2018 roster, 2019 roster)!? KPGFootball is left wondering whether YourSportsEdge and we have now both been duped into reporting on a “Cat-fish” contrived by the Caldwell program and named “Devin Kilgore.”

Well, if there is such a person, and if he had the year in 2018 credited to him on the KHSAA Riehard‘s football scoreboard, he’s a player we should be featuring. With his reported level of production, he has to be among the very elite defensive ends returning to the gridiron for the 2019 season.

As for his position along the offensive front, offensive center, we watched quite a bit of Caldwell highlight film and the center we saw wore No. 60. Kilgore is on the Riehard’s roster as wearing No. 63. When we consulted the roster to determine the identity of No. 60, there was no one on the roster assigned that number.

So if Caldwell invented someone and gave him the name Devin Kilgore and then assigned him some statistics, you got us. If he isn’t an invention, he is one super-productive DE whose presence screaming off the edge of the Tigers’ defense will make either throwing the football or running to his side a dubious proposition, at best, when the 2019 football season opens.

We don’t know which of these two contingencies is the correct one. KPGFootball supposes we will just have to wait and see.

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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  1. I’m devin Kilgore mom and his number is 63 if you want to talk with us you can call me 270 625 2840 thank you

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