One of #Brotherhood’s finest, @lavell3421 (Lavell Wright) from @AthleticsNHHS (North Hardin). Setting a fine example (feature photo: credited on image)!

We look back today at a former Kentucky Future Star great and former two-time KPGFootball All-Stater, Lavell Wright!

Looming on the immediate horizon are the tryouts for the Kentucky Future Stars team. Kentucky annually plays the best players from Tennessee in an encounter which has pitted, one against the other, the finest middle school football talent from each state in an annual football game which has occurred since 2010. The location of the game switches, annually, between a Tennessee and a Kentucky site.

The one thing which never seems to change is how infallibly the respective directors, Ricco Hughes (Kentucky) and Josh Jones (Tennessee), appear at spotting, very early on, talent which will thrive at the high school level and even continue on to play on Saturdays. The list of Team Kentucky players who have gone on to the next level is extremely astounding and the percentage of players coming through who go on to play on Saturdays is unbelievably high.

We thought we would look at a kid who played on the Future Stars teams in 2015 (7th) and 2016 (8th) and who has gone on to become on of Kentucky’s very finest prospects in the graduating Class of 2021. Today, we are taking a look at North Hardin’s Lavell Wright.

Now, we were on Lavell early at this publication too. We featured him numerous times when he was still a middle school phenom and selected him to both our KPGFootball freshman and sophomore All-State teams. Can’t deny though that had Ricco Hughes not alerted our attention to him who knows for sure if we would have picked up on this star player. Well, that is why we ask him so frequently to serve on our selections committees.

Lavell Wright had a super season in 2019 for a North Hardin Trojan team which finished 13-1 in Kentucky’s 6A Classification. Find where his name is “blue,” as that will link you to his junior highlights and see for yourself.

Statistically, Wright gained 1,819-yards from scrimmage in 259-carries with 25-rushing TDs. The dual-threat RB, who Rivals has rated the 5th best college prospect, Kentucky-wide, in the class of 2021, also caught 34 footballs for 553-yards receiving. He caught 3 TD receptions in route to leading his team with 168-points scoring.

Lavell, who we always thought would get too tall for the RB position and believed would blossom into a WR (What can we tell you, we were wrong. Not the first time, won’t be the last) is 6-1 and weighs nearly 200-pounds. Wright is chiseled, strong, powerful, and extremely explosive and could potentially play numerous position on the college level on both offense or defense.

Lavell is holding offers from Indiana, Kent State, UK, Missouri, Purdue, Tennessee, Toledo, UAB, Vanderbilt, UVA, and WVU. For some reason we can’t possibly fathom, and similar to the present situation with Reece Jesse, Jr. out of Hopkinsville, U of L hasn’t yet offered, or Rivals is not reporting them as having yet offered.

Lavell is a special kid, in and out of the classroom, on or off of the field, as some of the offers from academic schools the likes of UVA, Vanderbilt, and even Purdue certainly suggest. He is also one of this publication’s all-time favorite players and former Future Stars.

Good luck to all of the kids soon to be competing for a position on this coming year’s Future Stars roster. You are joining a brotherhood steeped in both character and performance. Guys like Lavell Wright both have and continue to show you the way.

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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