Savage wins the ’25 Paul Hornung Award
Jacob Savage has won a distinction, in the Paul Hornung Award, generally reserved for players who are also “Mr. Football” candidates. Savage is a Mr. Football candidate too who uplifts his team in a variety of ways contributing to a variety of phases. Savage is going to resume his football carrier as a Hoosier (Indiana University) and Savage’s future is shining brightly. Getting to cover Jacob Savage, in high school, was our privilege.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, KPGFootball
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Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Union, KY: What a glorious surname to be a football player. Jacob SAVAGE is aptly named and aptly described.
What else would you call, or how else would you describe, a high school football senior who, going into his semifinal game in 6A against South Warren had 509-tackles and 2,735 career rushing yards. Over the course of his senior year, one where his “Raiders” finished 10-4, Savage rushed for 1,222 yards and 24-rushing TDs; gained 204-yards receiving with five (5) aerial scores; contributed 112-tackles, 15-TFLs, a half a sack with a pair of picks accumulating 52-IRNYs. That is quite a mouthful.
We would suppose that is why Savage was recently named the Paul Hornung Award winner. We suppose that is why Savage is headed to Indiana on a full, football ride, to play FBS, Division I, Power Four football. Savage, in deed…
If you look at Savage’s numbers, the performance begins to look all the more comprehendible. Savage plays linebacker, and is projected to play linebacker in college, in spite of his being a right effective RB over his high school career.
Savage is 6’2,” 215-pounds who has been timed in the low 4.6s on the laser and shuttle in 4.35-seconds. Savage’s vertical in well into the 30s, his bench press is approaching three-bills (300), and he runs the 100-meter dash in the 11s.
For a guy likely headed to play MLB in the Big 10, the kid can motor. Again, that is how one becomes a three (3) star, nationally ranked recruit and an Indiana Hoosier football commit.
Jacob Savage held 16 or so Division I, FBS, Power Four FB offers before committing to Indiana
Friday Night Fletch
The Paul Hornung Award is annually given to the player believed to be the best football player in his senior class across the commonwealth. The five (5) most recent winners were Jager Burton (Frederick Douglass), Dane Key (Douglass), Ty Bryant (Douglass), Cutter Boley (Lexington Christian) and Montavin Quisenberry (Boyle County).
Quisenberry and Burton also went on to win the Kentucky’s Mr. Football Award. Savage has a puncher’s chance at winning this year’s Mr. Football.
There are those who would claim (and rightly) that Savage is already the big winner. After all, how many people get the privilege of signing, out of high school, with one of America’s hottest football programs?
At the end of the day, that is what is truly important. Using your talents and abilities to earn for your family and you a better life, a different life; that is the goal, that is the destination.
To Ryle High’s Jacob Savage all we can say is “You made it, man!” Mission accomplished. Congratulations…
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball; reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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