Mingua Beef Jerky uses Enviro-Pac CHU-2000 equipment to cook its meat to USDA required levels for both moist or dry operation. Mingua Beef Jerky wants you to become one of its many satisfied customers by sampling its quality hand sliced, all natural beef jerky. We know you’ll love it and come back for more, again and again.
Ronnie Mingua began experimenting with making beef jerky back in the 1990s. He shared his efforts with neighbors and friends, soon realizing he had come up with something different and superior to all other beef jerkies on the market. From these humble beginnings, Mingua Beef Jerky got its start.
Today, the Mingua Beef Jerky Company still prides itself on using its old-fashioned, all-natural recipes which offer outstanding products to customers across the nation. The recipes are a family tradition, passed down from generation to generation.
Our recipes and our quality ingredients, hand-cut from solid pieces of beef, are never chopped or formed like other brands, making our products superior and one of a kind. That would make our products similar to this week’s Protein-packed Performer, Jayden Travis, ’26 TE/DE from North Hopkins High in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Our recipes and our quality ingredients, hand-cut from solid pieces of beef…
Mingua Beef Jerky
Madisonville, KY: It is easy to get caught up in the fanfare of a star player at a prime time position like running back. Markezz Hightower is coming off a year where he gained around 1,800-total yards and scored 21-TDs rushing and receiving.
Is Hightower in the “Mr. Football” race? Yessir; right smack-dab in the middle of it.
If Markezz were to put together the type year his big brother, Jariah, had his senior year (348-carries, 3001-yards, 33-rushing TDs in 2019), we would say this version of “Hightower” would be hard to overlook.
We don’t believe 3,000-yards is the requisite number to be awarded the honor. Rushing yardage north of 2,500-yards with 25+ rushing TDs should do the trick.
However, there is way more talent at the Maroons disposal than the one running back. Those five guys upfront will have a major vote in any running back’s Mr. Football candidacy. So will the guy manning the post known as the offensive line’s sixth member, the TE, Jayden Travis.
Travis is a beast. Travis is a DAWG. Travis is sensational at the TE slot, as good of a TE as we saw play that position in ’24 at any level of competition.
Travis didn’t get the same fanfare as some. Travis did catch our eye and upping a young man’s visibility is sort of a KPG-thing, if you will.
Travis caught 25-passes in a run-first attack in ’24 with three (3) TDs receiving. Travis finished fifth on the team in “scoring.”
Travis caught 25-passes to lead the team in a run-first offensive attack
KHSAA statistical website
Travis also was instrumental in a rushing attack which gained over 3,200 yards and scored 42-rushing TDs. It isn’t like the Maroons couldn’t toss it around either. The passing attack accounted for close to 1,300 yards passing and 11-passing TDs.
The big tight end (6’3,” 230) accounted for three (3) of the team’s 11 TDs through the air. That is approximately 28% production out of that one player.
Travis, at 6’3,” 230-pounds, bench presses 250, squats 365, pulls or “deadlifts” 440, and power cleans 280. Strong, powerful, and explosive are lethal combinations for HS TEs.
Travis has soft, receptive hands; a thick and long enough frame to effectively work the middle of the defense with considerable advantage, and is fast enough (4.9-second, 40-yard dash) to create match-up problems with opposing defensive coordinators hoping their 2nd line of defense can contain this offensive weapon. As for smarts, how about his 3.6-GPA.
You know when teams like Centre College are recruiting you, odds are you are really smart. Travis is in play for any program from the “near Ivys” to the Ivy-leagues to the service academies like West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), and Colorado Springs (Air Force).
Travis is a dual sport athlete, also excelling on the track & field team. Travis also plays a little defense with a penchant for making downhill plays. Last year, Travis registered a pair of tackles for loss and a sack amongst his six stops.
Think about that a moment, Travis made six stops and half of them were in the opposing offense’s backfield. Half the time Travis was making a defensive play, he was putting the opponent in unfavorable down and distance situations.
I’ll take those odds. How about you?
Join us next week as we return to honor another weekly prize winner. Until then, pop some Mingua Beef Jerky in your mouth and savor the quality and flavor which sets it apart from the competition. Remember, our product is superior and one of a kind; just like North Hopkins (Madisonville) High School’s Jayden Travis.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball and KPI Newspaper Group, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
If you enjoyed this article and wish to gain full-access to the site, then subscribe monthly to Kentucky Prep Gridiron by following the prompts!
© The information contained on this site is the copyrighted intellectual property of KPGFootball. Any unauthorized dissemination of this material without the author’s express written consent is strictly prohibited!
Leave a Reply