Has RB, Adam “PacMan” Taylor Jr. become Kentucky’s top prospect in the Class of 2025?

If you were at the Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars Classic you probably noticed a few things. The first thing which appeared to KPGFootball about the game was how well it was both played and coached, especially at the 6th grade level.

It was much better football than we believed it would be going in and, truthfully, every bit as fine of a game (if not even better) than its 7th or 8th grade counterparts. Put succinctly, it was excellent football, well installed, and played at a high-school level of execution. In a word, “Impressive.”

The other thing one would certainly have to notice was Louisville’s Adam “PacMan” Taylor Jr. running over, around, and through the Tennessee defense on Kentucky’s way to claiming a 12-7 victory in the inaugural game at that particular grade level. Certainly nothing novel for a Kentucky Future Star, but Taylor, like his teammates, had exactly zero about either his appearance, mobility, or game-play which would have given the slightest indication we were watching a 6th-grade football game or player.

Now, when it comes to KPGFootball’s opinion of the game play, don’t take our word for it. The Louisville Youth Sports Network (to which all of you should be subscribers anyway) posted this video of the highlights of the game. We’ve linked you to it. Watch it (after the advertisements you have to watch first) and tell us what your opinion.

Now there are a lot of things about this prospect we can’t tell you. For instance, we don’t have any idea his exact height, though he looked as tall as any other 6th-grader we saw on either team not aligned at receiver or offensive tackle. We aren’t sure what his weight is, though he looked more developed and thicker than most on the roster and that is a mouth-full because these were Kentucky and Tennessee’s very finest at the 6th-grade, rising 7th-grade stage of physical development.

We don’t know, exactly, what his running speed is. However we can confidently say he’s fast enough to run through proper pursuit angles from Tennessee’s best 2nd and 3rd level defenders on hand for the marquee, middle-school football game of the year.

If “The Volunteer State” has anything in its middle-three or back-four which could either tackle or knock PacMan out of bounds before finding the end-zone, they must have been saving him for some other opponent, in some other game. We never saw that player either in Tennessee’s lineup or on Tennessee’s sideline.

While these are the things we don’t know, there are a couple things we can say after watching him play. Adam “PacMan” Taylor, Jr. is the best running-back in his class in Kentucky (and maybe in Tennessee too) at the 6th-grade level. We have this eery feeling this article while his first feature, certainly won’t be his last.

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.

3 Comments

  1. Love our Pacman ❤️
    He’s a great tough man on and off the field
    #33& #21 is one unit 🏈🏉🏆 when you see one you see both never played without each other ❤️

  2. PAC-MAN #33 and Lil B #21 BOTH play for
    The Louisville Broncos aka BRONCBAMA!
    This is a great picture of them doing what they do!

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