Driver is a ’26 threat to sweep all the major awards
There are four very prestigious awards given annually in the commonwealth of Kentucky. There is the “Large School Mr. Football” awarded by Big Ass Fans in connection with its annual All-State Football teams, there is the KHSAA “Mr. Football,” there is the Gatorade, “Kentucky HS Player of the Year,” and there is the “Paul Hornung Award.” This past year, Markezz Hightower (Madisonville North Hopkins) and Jacob Savage (Ryle High) shared the Big Ass Fans “Mr. Football Award” for the large schools, the “Gatorade PoY” and the KHSAA’s “Mr. Football” was Evan Hampton, and the “Hornung Award” went to Jacob Savage. Who will win these awards in ’26. We may have a sweep and it may be this guy! Only time will tell.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, KPGFootball
Big Ass Fans from Lexington, Kentucky has a simple corporate goal. The company is “creating a more comfortable world,” one fan at a time.
The logo is the rear of a donkey (Fanny) swishing its tail back and forth. The trademarked logo is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate identities across the commonwealth and has come to represent commitment to quality, cutting-edge innovation, and product reliability.
Big Ass Fans is so much more than just a gigantic fan. It is gigantic quality, gigantic performance, and a gigantic commitment to reliability and innovation. Its size is far from the only selling point about our product. Our product is a Kentucky Comfort Creator…and, these days, isn’t that exactly what Kentucky needs?
“Fanny” is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate logos…
Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Danville, KY: We have just closed the books on a glorious 2025 football season. We crowed four champions who didn’t win titles in ’24 (KCD, LCA, Boyle County, and Owensboro), re-crowned a couple of teams who repeated (Trinity, three straight; and CAL, four straight), and celebrated brilliant accomplishments from some individual players.
As ’26 looms, there will be a bevy of awards up for grabs. One guy who figures to be in the middle of the discussion for all of them is superstar TE, Seneca Driver, from Boyle County.
Driver may be the most talented single football player in the KHSAA entering 2026. Driver may also be the best high school football player in Kentucky at any level of play.
In ’25, Driver was the most recruited and ballyhooed baller in the ’27 graduating class. Driver, at TE, caught 49-passes for 875-yards and 11-TDs.
Driver helped anchor a line which rushed for 3,333-yards and 40-TDs while throwing for another 2,832-yards and 29-scores. Driver rushed for three (3) scores, scored 96-points, contributed 67-tackles, 10-TFLs, three (3)-sacks, while picking five (5) passes for 97-IRNYs and a pair of “pick sixes.”
That is just an incredibly versatile and skilled level of multi-phase production. Haddix has before said Play your players in response to questions about platooning. Driver plays in multiple phases in spite of playing for one of the deeper, more talented rosters in the game at any level of play in our commonwealth.
Haddix plays his players, even it means multiphase deployment
Friday Night Fletch
Haddix plays his players. That is why players like Driver find the field in more than just their primary deployment when playing for him.
At the end of the day what is truly important, and the sine qua non of high school coaching, is a coach’s ability to use a team’s talents and abilities to put players in position to succeed. That is the goal, that is the destination, and no coach throughout Kentucky (in the modern game) does this any better than Justin Haddix at Boyle County.
Haddix, and the coaching staff at Boyle County, has developed some fine talent through the years the staff has been at Boyle adding their five (5), 4A football titles to the eight (8) previous titles the program won before Haddix’s arrival. Seneca Driver, and his maturation into the KHSAA’s most sought after ’27 talent, is an excellent example.
Going into his senior year, one has to like Driver for all the prestigious individual awards the Bluegrass bestows. One has to like the Rebels chances for Haddix title No. six (6) too.
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball; reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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