’28 QB a dual threat guy and among the commonwealth’s very best
Lexington Christian Academy (LCA) played a murder’s row type schedule in 2025 and still won the 2A title and finished 12-3. Of course, not all three (3) loss seasons are similarly situated. This particular one boasted an opening weekend victory over a ranked 6A team in North Hardin and a win in the “Holy War” over 3A rival, Lexington Catholic. LCA will have a target on its back the entire ’26 Fall and it would be unwise to overlook the pride of Lexington’s 2A classification regardless of how large of an enrollment your school may have. Enjoy this look at a rising junior QB who made a tremendous difference for this team and had his Eagles playing its best football at exactly the right time of year last season.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Nash Whelan was incredible as a sophomore and is expected to make the most of a junior year which sees him coming off an All-State season a year ago. Whelan will continue to be at the helm of one of Kentucky’s premier high school football programs.
Lexington Christian Academy (LCA) perennially competes for KHSAA championships at its level of play. Players driving the offense, like Nash Whelan, are among the reasons why.
Lexington, KY: Nash Whelan had his team playing perhaps its best football at the exact right time of year in ’25. By playoff time the Eagles were rolling and LCA was able to best a tough customer, Owensboro Catholic (13-2), 33-28 in the title game.
The title was the program’s second ever. Now the Eagles get to experience being the hunted over being the hunter.
The fact is this…the Eagles were young in 2025. Many believed LCA was (at least) a year away from contending in ’25.
Their winning it all in ’25 makes the Eagles a definite threat to repeat in ’26. The Eagles have the pieces both in place and returning to do it.
Nash Whelan was a sophomore a season ago and had quite the season. Whelan, a double threat guy offensively, threw for close to 2,300-yards and 26-TDs against only six (6) INTs. Whelan completed 156 of his 239 passing attempts (66%).
Unlike a lot of QBs detailed here, Whelan was not just a QB but a RB too. Whelan led the team in rushing in 2025 with 1,000-yards on 135-carries (7.41-yards per) while scoring 14-rushing TDs.
The most important statistic was Whelan leading the Eagles to the 2A title, its second all-time. In the end, that is the statistic people will most likely remember about any QB.
Whelan is a member of one of the KHSAA’s best ’28 classes at LCA. One might say the state champion Eagles developed along the same arch as its prized ’28 QB.
Whelan played defense too. That is a move a lot of coaches across Kentucky wouldn’t contemplate with his importance to the efficiency of the other side of the football. Whelan registered 41-tackles a year ago, six (6) of which were TFLs. Whelan also picked a pass and recovered a fumble.
In the “Holy War (against Lexington Catholic),” Whelan completed 13 of 19-passing attempts for 116-yards. Whelan also gained nearly 100-yards (90) on 19-carries, three (3) of which he carried across the goal line.
As you can see Whelan’s performances improved as his experience in the lineup continued to expand resulting in Whelan’s getting more settled at the controls of the offense. All of this benefitted his team whose best football may still be yet to come. That is a scary thought.
Like we constantly mention, quarterbacks don’t score rushing touchdowns without blocking, nor do they complete an inordinate percentage of passes without protected pockets. The success of these young skills last year was directly attributable to the outstanding play of ’28 OG, Matthew Montgomery, and his upfront cohorts.
The boys upfront, the unit Montgomery anchored, got it done in 2025
Friday Night Fletch
Against a gauntlet of football powers at different classes in the middle of playing one of the more difficult schedules in the KHSAA last year, Nash Whelan proved himself among the more versatile, multiphase weapons in the game. It was fine production, indeed, for any sophomore. Whelan figures to only increase that output as a junior.
We recognize LCA will have to continue to play well if the program is to continue to experience the success it had in its second championship season. That being said, we are still predicting it likely the Eagles challenge for the title in ’26 like the program customarily does annually.
We see Whelan as a next level kid or future college football player. We aren’t sure if it will be as a QB or some other position and the level at which he figures to play will depend on how his frame finishes.
Whelan is 6’0,” 175 now. Whelan could use another two (2) to four (4) inches, if he is going to be a division one, college QB.
We know this, Whelan’s performances on “Friday Nights,” as a 10th-grader, only strengthened (in our minds) our prediction concerning his future college prospects. We also know Whelan, like Montgomery about whom we persistently write, is a strong academic performer with excellent class standing and almost assuredly will be a “full qualifier,” in the NCAA clearinghouse, when the time comes.
For now, Whelan is one other thing in addition to all the other skills and assets we have highlighted. Whelan is among the very best dual threat QB’s in the KHSAA’s ’28 graduating class. Whelan is also our eCampus.com, Big Man on the eCampus feature of the week!
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