’28 multi-phase player a weapon for whom to account in the Army Bowl this coming season
It is a big game. The game between Fort Campbell and Fort Knox pits the only two Department of Defense funded high schools, in America, in a yearly high school football game. It has before featured some of the best talent in the Commonwealth and two championship caliber teams who have intermittently ruled their competitive classes at times over the course of program history. Fort Campbell won it big last season. However we have found a three-phase, lethal weapon Coach Mitchell and staff better be ready for when this coming season’s game occurs. Call this a free scouting report from the magazine’s chief scout. You’re welcome!
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Oak Grove, KY: We’ve been kind of reliving the ’25 season this offseason. If you’re a Falcon fan, you put a ton of yearly stock in beating your sister, Department of Defense funded high school, Fort Knox.
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Fort Campbell won the game a year ago. Throughout history, you are talking about a pair of programs which have won nine (9) KHSAA football titles between the two (Fort Knox, Class 2A, 1983, 1988, 1990; Fort Campbell, Class 1A, 1976, 1978 and Class 2A 1979, 2007, 2008, 2009).
One guy who arguably had his biggest game of the year against the Falcons is a ’28 prospect who only got run in eight games on the year. Blake Denton had (arguably) his best game of the season against the Falcons.
Denton completed a pass, ran for 48-yards in six (6) carries, and scored a rushing TD. On defense, Denton registered 3-tackles, 1-TFL, and a QB-sack. Denton basically had a season in a night if you peruse his statistical outlay for the ’25 season.
Denton also kicked a PAT amongst his seven attempts but didn’t convert a one-pointer in the Army Bowl. Oh well, you can’t do everything in that one night.
The Falcons won the game 55-18. In the end, the final margin was somewhat indicative of the difference between the two programs.
Nick Covin has been brought in from the middle school ranks to close the gap. He will lead Fort Knox into the ’26 football season.
Getting some more production and more often from Denton will be paramount in restoring the Eagles’s football fortunes. If you look at Denton, physically, there is plenty to like about him.
Denton reports three positions. Denton is a SS, a WR, and a PK. He gained valuable experience at all three slots, and gained some production in all three, over the course of his sophomore season.
Denton is 6’2,” weighs in at 185-pounds, and has the length preferred for where he deploys. The Eagles will be expecting big things from Denton as a junior. The junior season is the one where the largest amount of development often occurs.
While Denton has good height and length, Denton could stand to get a bit stronger, a bit more explosive, vertically and otherwise. Speed and “quicks” will be quintessential to Denton’s seeking to play next level.
Denton ended the year, as a sophomore, looking to round into a multi-phase performer for the Eagles. We hope to see Denton more often and more regularly over the course of the ’26 season. Denton figures to be squarely in the mix next Fall and should either start or certainly be in the play rotation.
We would like to see Denton get more than the eight (8) games of run he got in 2025. If you add additional games of production to what he did in ’25, Denton’s numbers would become even more impressive.
Friday Night Fletch
Blake Denton showed great promise in ’25 and performed admirably for Fort Knox, particularly against Fort Campbell
As a coach tearing up 4A has told us, and he has won numerous championships at that level, “play your players.” That is good advice at 4A, 5A, & 6A. That is a fact of life at 1A, 2A, & 3A.
Denton is playing for a coach, in Nick Colvin, who comes from an impressive pedigree and, himself, played for Poppa Joe Jaggers late in his Hall of Fame career. Colvin has the right pedigree to rebuild the Eagles.
Another aspect at coaching in High School at which Colvin will need to flourish is finding “Next Level” homes for his talent. Colvin is coming up from the middle school ranks, so the jury is still out in that regard.
Denton, to us, looks like a “next level” guy at some level. Of course, some of that depends on his undergoing some physical and skill/speed development this offseason before a big junior season upcoming. Colvin appears to be a guy who can get Denton and his teammates there.
Developing talent is critical among high school coaches in today’s world. With what college tuition runs these days, guys like Colvin, who are willing to work hard to achieve a player’s playing talent will pick up most of the tab, is the kind of coach for whom you want your kid playing.
Identifying potential stalwarts will be tantamount to getting the Fort Knox football team prepared for the challenges it will face in coming seasons. That is why this particular Eagle 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 Christian County, KY (particularly Oak Grove and Fort Campbell) to get ready to play this outstanding performer and outstanding young man. Hey guys, when you have to face talent like Blake Denton, it may be wise to wake up and smell the coffee!
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 Blake Denton.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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