Neither Keegan Hill (KY) nor Jordyn Potts (TN), at first glance, fit the stature of your more “statuesque” quarterbacks. Then again, neither did one of history’s greatest military commanders fit the “statuesque” frame of what one expects of a major military figure. Never stopped him from being wildly successful.
The commander of whom the little “undersized” QBs most remind us, is a person whose name should be immediately familiar to you. His name was Napoléon Bonaparte. He was known most widely and simply as “Napoléon.”
Napoléon brought Revolutionary France back from the brink of destruction with two campaigns in Italy (1796 & 1797). Napoléon made a fool of Czar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. Napoléon encircled an Austrian army and forced them to capitulate at the Battle of Ulm, also in 1805. He did all of the above while being only 5’7″ tall and you can read any of this information yourself by hitting this link.
Now the challenges facing both Kentucky’s Keegan Hill (5-9, 160-pounds) and Tennessee’s Jordyn Potts (5-8, 140-pounds) aren’t as daunting as the ones Napoléon faced, but facing the best either Kentucky or Tennessee can muster, in the annual Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars classic, isn’t any minor obstacle either.
This is the 8th grade Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars Classic we’re discussing and Coach LaKunta Maximus Farmer (KY), the coach with the name of a Roman Ceasar, has a 3-0 series record on the line since his coming on to coach in the annual series. Coach Farmer has beaten Tennessee in this game by blowout in 2016, and in tightly contested contests in both 2017 and 2018. Prior to Coach Farmer, Tennessee owned the 8th grade series and we are sure the boys from the Volunteer State are itching for a reversal of fortunes.
Now the Tennessee Future Stars team will have, among its QBs, a diminutive field general of their own in Jordyn Potts. Potts is listed at 5-8, an inch taller than Napoléon, and weighs 140 pounds, as we set forth in an above paragraph. We would have linked Keegan Hill’s Hudl highlights too but we couldn’t find where he had any.
As for Potts, Jordyn is a former Bret Cooper, Middle School, All-American at the QB position who played very well in the series in the 7th grade game, last year, and has been tearing it up on the Sevens’ circuit. Over Potts career with the 14-U Fulton Falcons in Knoxville Tennessee, he has thrown for approximately 3,600 yards passing with 64 TD passes.
Somewhere on the turf at Fortera Stadium in Clarksville, Tennessee on June 15 these two field-generals are likely to face off against the other’s defense. How each fares will go a long way toward determining the outcome between these two land masses sharing a long border between them stretching from east to west.
Each of these two guys have worked really hard to gain for themselves reputations of being among the elite QBs in their graduating class of 2023 in their respective states. As for Keegan Hill, the diminutive Kentucky field general tried out for the Future Stars’ staff at both the Mason County and Louisville combines. We hear Keegan was confident enough to attend the Louisville combine because he WANTED to compete against the best athletes the commonwealth had, head to head.
Both of these kids are gritty, tough, and accomplished QBs who believe in themselves and what they know they can do on a football field. There won’t be an Alexander I to make look foolish in Clarksville, Tennessee, on the 15th of June, 2019…just two Napoléons looking to add to their own impressive middle school résumés one last time before going back home to compete for Friday night PT.
This is F.W. Long (#Brotherhood) reporting for KPGFootball reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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Thanks for using my picture. It would be great to credit the photographer, Captured Memories by Christi.
Christi, will go back in a credit the photo immediately. Thanks for telling me I had pulled it from Facebook (either his mother’s page or his) and figured his mother had taken it. Sorry.