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Travis as good as there is around WKY at the TE slot!

There is a lot more to playing TE than catching footballs. Tight ends are often referred to as the offensive line’s 6th-member and with good reason. We have been saying all season that Jayden Travis from Madisonville is as good as there is at the TE position in Western Kentucky and, this week, the Lindsay Wilson football program agreed with us. The Blue Raiders, one of the elite college football programs in the commonwealth has offered Travis. We don’t believe this offer will be his last as Travis had a tremendous season for the Maroons this year and has loads of potential and desirable physical traits and attributes.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”

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Madisonville, KY: We hope those of you reading this article appreciate how prestigious an offer to play football for Lindsay Wilson really is. These guys won a national championship as recently as 2020, have qualified for the NAIA national tournament 8Xs, and are 5X champions of the Mid-South Conference, one of the NAIA’s more prestigious conferences.

Lindsey Wilson football’s overall record, so far this season, is 8-1 with a conference record of 4-1. The team’s record includes a loss to Campbellsville University and victories against Georgetown College, University of the Cumberlands, and Faulkner University. 

Lindsay Wilson is presently ranked the number nine (9) football team in the country at the NAIA level. The Blue Raiders are solid contenders for both conference and national honors.

In other words, an offer from such a program (particularly in the NIL/transfer portal era) is significant, prestigious, and coveted. If you are thinking this is a big deal, you’re correct. If you are thinking this makes Travis a serious All-State candidate for the ’25 season and among the best TEs in the commonwealth playing at the KHSAA level, right once more.

The Maroons bowed out of the playoffs in the first round to a dangerous Greenwood team which constituted a tough, tough first round matchup. Still, overall it was a really good season which would see the Maroons give Paducah Tilghman its only loss of the season. Along the way, Madisonville beat 6As, Hopkinsville High and Warren Central, and many other quality teams at various levels of play.

Jayden Travis had a very productive season. Travis caught 25-passes for 295-yards and a pair of TDs. As the sixth offensive lineman, the team threw for 1,342-yards and 10-TDs while rushing for 2,563-yards and 39-TDs.

Travis helped anchor a front behind which Markezz Hightower would gain 1,554-yards and score 25-rushing TDs and 158-points. None of these things happen in a vacuum.

Lindsay Wilson gets a large frame with plenty of athleticism and bulk to shield 2nd level defenders from the football when targeted over the middle. The Blue Raiders also get a player with the heft to contribute in the run game and block first level defenders and upfield edge rushers.

Travis is 6’3,” 230-pounds with room on the frame to add some “good weight.” Travis clips off 40-yards in the 4.8-4.9-second range and bench presses in the neighborhood of 300-pounds while repping 185-pounds (high school rep weight) 17-times, squatting 430, and pulling (deadlifting) 430.

Travis’s defensive position is OLB. That should give the reader an idea about his speed and “quicks.”

We were able to reach Travis for comment. Travis told KPGFootball, “It is such an honor for the coaching staff at Lindsay Wilson to have offered me. I like what they do scheme-wise and believe I could be a very good player for the Blue Raiders. I don’t know exactly what the future holds but getting this offer is quite an achievement and a blessing.”

North Hopkins will hit this offseason with an eye toward improving on what they have done this year and last. The Maroons have back to back eight (8) win seasons, which certainly isn’t bad, but not for what the team was hoping.

Madisonville-North Hopkins has everything a program needs to continue to compete for championships. The coaching is there, the roster talent is there, the institutional and community support is there. Now all we need is to find some more Jayden Travises.

Good luck with that. Tight-ends like Travis don’t grow on trees, you know.

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