Kade Grundy, Class of 2021’s Marquee Athlete (Feature Photo: SM Lynch Photography)

Kade Grundy, as a football prospect, gets overlooked. Now that is the story with most Kentucky prospects which is a problem we are seeking to remedy. Grundy’s getting overlooked is for a completely different reason than most.

At 6-2 and weighing 190-pounds and playing receiver, Grundy gets overlooked because football isn’t his best sport. In fact, on his list of sports at which he excels, it may be third.

Kade made the KPGFootball sophomore All-State team in 2018 as an “Athlete.” Are we good or what? He was also selected the Commonwealth Journal’s Male Athlete of the Year in 2018.

In football, playing in only half of Somerset’s 14 games in 2018 owing to both an ankle injury and making the Junior Olympic Baseball Team, Grundy caught 28 passes for 406 yards receiving and 5TDs. He also took two kickoffs to the house.

In basketball, Kade is the only player in Somerset High School history to eclipse the 1,000 career point mark in only his sophomore season. In a commonwealth crazy about basketball, he is easily on pace to score over 2,000 career points on the hardwood.

Kade is one of the finest baseball prospects in America. In addition to being selected to the Junior Olympic Baseball Team, Kade is committed to play collegiately with the University of Louisville’s Cardinals, a top-flight college baseball program.

Still, his skills which tend to get overlooked in football shouldn’t be ignored. If HC Robbie Lucas’ Briar Jumpers are to reach the State semis again, it will be because of players returning like Grundy.

Somerset lost some outstanding production, particularly defensively, when Peyton Hatcher’s and Landon Fields’ high school eligibilities expired. Both of them are still playing football, just on Saturday instead of Friday.

Regardless of what graduated, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about Somerset’s prospects in 2019. The Class 2A powerhouse returns one of the top QB prospects in Kentucky in dual-threat, 2021er, Kaiya Sheron.

Sheron, who has been offered by the UK Wildcats and whose stock as a football prospect is ever rising, threw for 1,846 yards and 13 passing TDs against only 6 interceptions as a sophomore. He also gained 505 yards rushing on 72 carries with 7 rushing TDs to supplement his aerial production.

Easy to see Sheron’s passing numbers will exponentially increase should he get a fully-healthy and omnipresent Kade Grundy for the entire season, as opposed to just half of it. KPGFootball can’t think of a single player who wouldn’t benefit from getting to throw the football to Kentucky’s Marquee Athlete.

We mean, can you?

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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Have coached at the high school and middle school level. Have worked in athletic administration. Conceal my identity to enable my candor on articles published by this magazine. Only members of the editorial board are aware of my true identity.

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