Preston Spurlock, Class of 2021, Leslie County’s hit-man (Featured Photo: Larry Robinson, BSN)

Uncredited Photo pulled from the subjects Facebook account.

Preston Spurlock, a former Future Star and FBU Elite member of Team Kentucky, is also a two-time KPGFootball All-Stater. He was selected to both our freshman and sophomore teams.

He is a 5-10, 225 pound linebacker who we call a hit-man. The word hit, referencing an underworld killing, originated in 1970 according to online sources we accessed to determine this information. In the underworld a hit is to kill by plan and a hit-man is someone retained for said purpose.

All of this seems an appropriate way to reference Preston Spurlock. Spurlock is, after all, the man Leslie County’s defense has retained, if you will, over the last two seasons to kill opposing ball carriers in the figurative (and sometimes, seemingly literal) sense.

In Preston’s freshman season, he tallied 123 solo tackles and registered 37 tackles for loss together with an interception and a caused fumble. Those had to have been unexpected numbers from a kid fresh from middle school. He had to have either “snuck up” or ambushed some area coaches not expecting that level of production form a rookie, varsity football player.

His numbers last year were even more impressive. Why? Well, everyone under the sun in Kentucky High School football with a Hudl account knew you couldn’t (or shouldn’t) run his way. In spite of being the focus of every opponent’s game plan, Spurlock totaled 128 tackles, in 11 games, with 32 TFLs, causing 2 fumbles, and registering 13 “big-hits.”

The “big-hits” statistic was one the defensive coaches at Leslie County kept this past season to indicate the amount of times Spurlock knocked the tee-total crap out of an opponent. Former coaching legend John Majors (Iowa State, Pittsburg, Tennessee) used to call it “knocking the snot bubbles out of a player.”

Entering the 2019 football season, Preston Spurlock remains one of the foremost second-level football players in Kentucky and particularly in the Mountains. Spurlock has registered, by our best guess, 251 tackles over his first two seasons with 69 tackles behind the line of scrimmage. This puts him on pace for an over 500-tackle, high school career.

That’s quite a few hits, for Leslie County’s “hit-man.” Would certainly make me run the other direction, how about you?

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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