It is critically important to recruit athletes to play football who have a varied and vast skill set. Griffen Meachem is one of those guys who contributes to more than just one sport. Like Madisonville’s Ryan Sandidge, Meachem is a top flight baseball player in addition to his contributions on the football field. The best part is…Meachem’s just a sophomore. This guy will just continue to improve as he physically and anatomically develops.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Hopkinsville, KY: Griffen Meacham is a two sport star playing in Hopkinsville High School’s last football season. It is sad, too as the Hoptown Tigers have played football for well more than a century and are the 263rd winningest, high school football program in this nation’s history with around 689-career wins.
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Meacham is solidly in the rotation defensively for the Tigers and has been turning heads with his play along the Tiger’s defensive 2nd-level. Friday night, at home, the Tigers got off to a great start with a 49-13 beat down of Nashville (TN) Stratford in the Stadium of Champions.
Meachem and his defensive teammates really played impressively. The Tigers held the Stratford Spartans to a measly 13-points on the night.
Meacham wears jersey number 18 for the “Orange and Black” and stands 5’7″ tall. Meacham weighs around a buck, eighty; bench presses over 200, squats over 350, and deadlifts 370-pounds. Meacham power cleans over 185 and taken, as a whole, has the power, speed, athleticism, and explosion which adds up to good linebacker play for any KHSAA football team along the western side of he commonwealth.
The sledding gets a bit tougher for the Tigers, who are off to a fast 1-0 start. You know what they say about 1-0; there’s no other pathway to 2-0!
Madisonville North Hopkins is coming off a 49-13 trouncing of 2024, 3A finalist, Union County. North boasts a “Mr. Football” candidate at RB (Markezz Hightower), one of the KHSAA’s better TE’s (Jayden Travis), a stud LBer (Kirk LaGrange) and several top-flight linemen (Kadence Price (’27) 6’2,” 265-pounds; Marvin Robert (’27) 6’4,” 285-pounds; Brody Hall (’27) 6’3,” 250-pounds; Gage Kinney (’27) 6’0,” 250-pounds; Kaden Vickery (’26), 6’1,” 280-pounds; and Boyd Dever (’28) 6’6,” 290-pounds).
North also has a two-sport star of its own, kind of like Meacham, in super star athlete and three phase performer Ryan Sandidge. Sandidge is particularly good retuning kicks.
This appeared to be a fact of which Union County was painfully aware. The Braves kicked it away from Sandidge all night long with Ryan still getting four (4) touches for 45-yards and a TD against the Braves in spite of the team’s best efforts to thwart such opportunity.
The Tigers should attempt to perform similarly and might well turn to its own baseball/football star using Ryan Sandidge’s usage as its inspiration. Identifying a potential weapon like Meachem should certainly help as Meacham is our Lasaters Coffee & Tea, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Player of the Week.
That being said we felt it was high time for people around Hoptown, KY (Hopkinsville High) to take notice of this outstanding performer and outstanding young man. Hey Hoptown, as far as Griffen Meacham is concerned; it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee!
In an effort to help this prospect’s continued development, Griffen Meachem may go, this Friday (August 29, 2025), to any of our area locations and be served a free drink of his choice and free breakfast or other sandwich/food item on us!
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Join us next week as we return to honor another weekly prize winner. Until then, get on down to one of our Christian County Area locations and remember, our products are superior and one of a kind; just like Hopkinsville High School’s Griffen Meachem.
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