Montgomery County’s Cole Taul, Class of 2021, Big…Nasty!

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His name is Cole Taul. He plays football for one of the best football coaches in the high school game in Kentucky, James Egli, and for one of the premier 5A programs (Montgomery County, a.k.a. “MoCo”) in the commonwealth.

He’s 6-4 and weighs 325 pounds of meat moving machine. He mostly aligns at right tackle but gets moved to the left side when MoCo decides to align unbalanced to the left side of its formation.

Taul is a devastating down-blocker and wipes out defensive linemen at the point of attack leaving earth to the meek one mouthful at a time. We have watched his filmed highlights. We suggest you do the same.

Here is what we see…

First of all, for his size, he plays with really good pad-level. Taul fires off the line, low and hard, as opposed to firing up and lumbering around the first two levels like some Frankenstein monster in a 60’s sci-fi.

He is active and vicious at the point of attack with the versatility to be aligned on either the right or left of the offense’s formation. There is film of him sliding off second level and being effective there.

He has what we refer to as a “knock-out” punch. What this means around the magazine at KPGFootball is when he unholsters his hands and shoots his guns (figuratively not literally) the player absorbing the blunt-force trauma is left sprawled in the dirt.

If he shoots his hands, and you’re on defense, you better pray his misses. If he doesn’t, you’re getting knocked to the ground in all but the rarest of instances.

We saw video of him running his feet through the whistle and driving his intended first-level target deep into the second level. He locks on and stays engaged throughout the block, which is what you want unless it is a combo-block working up to the second level and he’s to slide off when his partner overtakes him.

He played in all 12 games along the offensive front for a 9-3, Class 5A football team in 2018. He lists NG as a secondary position but we didn’t see any film of him there though we can’t rule out his being used there situationally in 2018.

Here are his stats as an offensive lineman. MoCo ran the football 478 times on the year in 12 games gaining 3,105 yards from scrimmage and scoring 48 rushing TDs on the year. Yes, that would be averaging, as a team, 6.5 yards a carry and scoring 4 rushing TDs every single ball game.

Taul is just a rising junior in 2019 and he prominently starred across the offensive line all through his 12 games of his sophomore year. Future college players find the lineup as sophomores and this one played the entire year. So, he’s right on track.

Rivals has no idea who this guy is, at least until they read my article later today. 247Sports.com has never heard of him, but they will, about the same time and same way Rivals did.

He has idea size and frame to slide inside and play guard in college at the FBS, power-5 level. Taul is a kid who should be listed among the best 2021 prospects on lists other than just ours.

Cole Taul is really big. The temperament with which he plays the line of scrimmage is nasty.

We love nicknames around KPGFootball, so, what the heck. We’ll nickname Cole Taul “The Big Nasty.”

If you’re a defensive lineman with MoCo on the schedule this year and are aligned inside of him, look out! Big Nasty will be looking to knock you out!

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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