As those of you who follow the site are aware, KPGFootball just got back from covering the Appalachia Prep Combine and will be at the Blue-Gray Combine in the Nashville area this weekend at John Paul II High School. We wrote an article entitled “Kentuckians shine with performances at the APC…”
In that article, we opined “We knew coming in that [Jackson Hensley] was just an incredible athlete, and…but he may be Kentucky’s premier athlete.” We even jokingly suggested the Kentuckian “…could have won the overall MVP of the combine…” taking nothing away from whom won the award, Bluefield High School’s Isaiah Johnson (VA).
Now when we suggested he was Kentucky’s premier athlete we were basing that on his 3.9 second pro-agility shuttle, 4.5 second 40-yard dash run into a considerable head-wind, and the power he displayed in the bench press and broad jump. Imagine what we would have said had we known what he would do at Nike’s The Opening the next day!
Hensley left White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and went to Charlotte, North Carolina where he really put on a show. Hensley measuring 6-0, 186 pounds, ran a fully automated 40-yard dash of 4.48 (show you how slow the track at the APC was), registered a 37.3-inch vertical, had a peak power rating of 7,520 Watts, ran the short-shuttle (5-10-5) in 4.33 seconds, and tossed the Powerball 41 feet. His overall SPARQ rating was 120.09 which was in the 99th percentile, nationwide, of athletes tested and good for the third best overall rating at the entire Charlotte combine.
So Jackson Hensley both came into and left the APC with KPGFootball believing him to be Kentucky’s finest athlete and may have left Charlotte, NC one of the South’s premier athletes, at least according to Nike. This is a player to watch going forward especially for voters in Kentucky’s coveted “Mr. Football” award and someone who will sky-rocket up the board of FBS, power 5 programs from this point forward.
Congratulations to Jackson Hensley from your friends and family at KPGFootball. We’re excited to see what comes next!
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is F.W. Long reminding all of you ballers out there to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE.
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