All I do is win, win, win no matter what
Got money on my mind, I can never get enough
And every time I step up in the building
Everybody hands go up…DJ Khaled
At KPGFootball, we don’t really imagine Khaled Mohamed Khaled, a.k.a. DJ Khaled, was in any way thinking of Reed Lanter when he penned the lyrics to All I do is win. However, if we told you he wrote the entire song as a tribute to Reed Lanter, many of you would have no trouble believing it. If you lived in a place like Danville, Kentucky, or anywhere in Boyle County, you would be immediately convinced, seeing what you have seen over the tenure of Reed Lanter’s career under center.
A QB’s most important statistic is W’s and L’s, period. Any football aficionado would tell you that. Well, Lanter took over for Sam Tiller to start the 2017 season. Tiller had led Boyle, in 2016, to a ghastly 7-5 mark. Lanter immediately led the 2017 Rebels to a 14-1 mark and a Class 3A State Football Championship following that up last year, in 2018, with a 13-1 mark, losing to Corbin in the Semis. How does 27-2 strike you for wins and losses?
Lanter completed 189 passes of his 286 attempts in 2018. That works out to a completion percentage of a little over 66%. He threw for just under 3,000 yards on the year (2,949) and completed 39 of his passes for TDs while being intercepted only 6 times on the year. That is surgical precision, unbelievable efficiency, and indicative of superlative decision making from a QB who is in high school.
Lanter is 6-1 and weighs 175 pounds and is a really good athlete on top of obviously having a firm grasp on Coach Chuck Smith’s offense and what he wants out of the position. Lanter has a registered 40-yard dash of 4.9 seconds, a pro-agility shuttle (5-10-5) of 4.38 seconds (which tells us way more about him as an athlete than his 40 time), and a 32-inch vertical leap. Someone with the vertical explosiveness to leap 32-inches is someone who is capable of running the 40 in a faster time than 4.9 which tells KPGFootball his 40 not being more in the neighborhood of 4.75 or so is probably technique and not speed related.
Lanter is much stronger than most playing his position too. Lanter has a maximum, one-rep-lift, on the bench-press of 235-pounds. This is corroborated by his repping the high school combine weight of 185-pounds on the bench-press 7 repetitions.
Reed Lanter is another example of a football player in Kentucky who is detrimentally impacted by his playing football in what is perceived as a “basketball-state.” There is literally no telling who would be courting this prospect if he played literally in any state bordering the commonwealth of Kentucky.
He has a frame akin to what we are seeing in top-flight quarterbacks these days in FBS-college football. He is very athletic for the position he plays. He makes tremendous decisions with the football and runs the offense with precision, like a Swiss-timepiece. His on-field production is, quite-literally, unbelievable. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, all Reed Lanter does is win, win, win, no matter what!
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is F.W. Long, reminding all of you ballers out there to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE.
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