I have requested special permission to write this article. The reason I wanted to write the article is because of this video…
At KPGFootball, we are big supporters of Future Stars Football. Annually, Kentucky’s very best come together to play the very best from Tennessee in the Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars Classic.
Now, once the 8th graders hit Future Stars camp, many of them have been lifting and working out with varsity teams for over a month and many are already penciled in as varsity starters. In other words, don’t show up to the Future Stars Classic, 8th grade variety, and expect to see a middle school football game, because you won’t.
The kids are no longer middle school sized, they aren’t middle school speed, they aren’t middle school football smart. They really are high school, underclassmen, varsity starters as you see from box scores across both Kentucky and Tennessee right now.
Meigs County is a fantastic football team. They have a fantastic Class of 2023 linebacker in former, Team Tennessee Future Star 2X captain, Luke Pendergrass.
While Pendergrass is a 200-pound inside linebacker now, his father, Vince, is 6-8, 340-pounds. It is projected Pendergrass (the younger) will grow to around 6-3 and at his present thickness would put him around 235-240 pounds when he gets there.
Though he is a 200-pounder presently, and only a freshman, Luke already presses a couple plates (225-pounds) and runs the 40-yard dash in 4.9-seconds.
Meigs County is coming off a 13-1 season in 2018 where they bowed out of the playoffs in the semis to Trousdale County 32-29. Already, on the new year (2019), Meigs has bested Sweetwater, 18-7, with Greenback upcoming this Friday night.
You don’t see freshman come along like Luke Pendergrass all the time. Matter of fact, most would say he is a once a decade type of player in the good programs (like Meigs) and once in a career at most schools playing HS football in the Volunteer state.
He darn sure could come play football for old Coach Lyon any time he wanted. I thank the editorial board at KPGFootball for permitting me to write this feature about this player though he is outside our coverage area normally.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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