’30 QB/LB is a multi-sport star who is attracting attention in MS
Many people forget we got our start covering (primarily) middle school football. Go back to our early stuff and you will see. Today, we go back to our roots and tell you about a versatile, multi-sport star who has a frame good enough for college football right now, and he is entering the 8th-grade (c/o 2030). His name is Samuel Speakes Wilson and he plays QB/LB for his middle school team. That isn’t all. He is pitcher/catcher in baseball and a small forward on the basketball team. Not to get too 80s on you, but Wilson’s future is so bright we might have to wear some shades.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Paris, KY: There are middle school talents so striking the high school coach salivates at the prospect of getting his hands on a certain up and coming kid. You will have to forgive Tyquan Rice, HFC Paris High School’s Greyhounds, if he feels this way about his middle school QB/LB Samuel Speakes Wilson.
It isn’t every day a player entering the 8th-grade stands 6’2″ tall and weighs 175-80 pounds. It isn’t every day the player is an offensive and defensive weapon (QB/LB). It isn’t every day the kid is a baseball star and basketball star on top of everything else.
Besides all of the above, Wilson carries a 4.0 GPA. File this one under the category of “are you freaking kidding me?”
Now, if you look at the kid in the photograph we have provided of him, there are certain things which become obvious. First of all, the kid has plenty of length.
Wilson has plenty of length with a cornucopia of athletic skills and isn’t finished developing
Friday Night Fletch
In addition to length, the kid is long-legged and has a long, slender neck and narrow shoulders with a short trunk. Anatomically speaking, this kid isn’t close to fully developed. Where he ends up, frame wise, is anyone’s guess.
We don’t know but would wager his parents are tall. We would also wager his mother is tall as the mother’s height, more times than not, is somewhat dispositive concerning the height of her children we have before noticed.
I wouldn’t take the last statement to the bank and try to cash it, we aren’t doctors or anything. The tall mother equals tall children equation is just something we have before seen many times over the years.
We don’t know it to be true. We have seen it play out that way, many times, over the years.
This much we do know; both high school and college coaches prize athleticism and versatility in their athletes, in their “stars.” This kid here has a very wide and deep pool of athletic skills.
As Coach Lyon above lays out in his scout, Wilson plays QB/LB in football, small forward in basketball, and is both ends of the battery in baseball (Pitcher/Catcher). There is a consistent characteristic present.
Wilson’s always in the middle of the action. Wilson’s always called on to be a star in any of the three sports he plays.
Wilson will have a monster year as an 8th grader in 2025. Wilson will enter 9th grade the following season with a chance to compete for a Friday Night job.
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This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball and KPI Newspaper Group, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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