The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company Superior Performance/Exceptional Quality Player of the Week is Deonatae (Deon) Edison (ATH) from Trigg County High @KatherineL58069, @Quinbaggett73, @LasatersCoffee, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @davaree_gude6, @TriggFootball, @CountyColonels, @HopHighTigers, @murrayFB

There was a guy who had some pretty terrific ideas once. Chris Ezell had a pretty good idea, too. Play the player on the team who shares a surname with America’s foremost inventor. Thomas Edison (not related to Deon, though we can’t swear an oath to it) was granted 1,093 U.S. patents during his lifetime, with his total number of patents (including international ones) reaching 2,332. His numerous patents covered a wide range of technologies, with some of the most famous and impactful including the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera. Coach Chris Ezell has had an equally compelling idea, as sound as any the enigmatic inventor principally reared in Port Huron, Michigan, ever had. Coach Ezell has decided to use his Mr. Edison, a ’27 prospect who is 5-10, 200 pounds, to play anywhere from RB to NG to LB. So far the experiment is working in grand style. Our Mr. Edison is playing them all very, very well.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”

The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company, based in Cadiz, Kentucky, was founded August 7, 1970. The bank obtained trust powers in 1978.

It is a locally owned, independent bank which has expanded, through the years, to locations in Hopkinsville and Murray in addition to Cadiz. The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company has focused on community finance and dealing face-to-face with both families and small-business owners while fulfilling customer needs and the dreams of area families and businesses regardless of size or construct.

We, like our area schools, strive for high performance and finding ways to prosper in an ever-changing economic environment. The Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company remains committed to superior performance goals coupled with an exceptional quality of customer service.

A local, young, high school athlete who also renders superior performance while achieving exceptional quality is Trigg County High’s, Deonatae “Deon” Edison, ’27 RB/NG/LB. Edison is this week’s Bank of Cadiz & Trust Company Superior Performance/Exceptional Quality Player of the Week.

Cadiz, KY: Thomas Edison’s first patent was for the Electrographic Vote Recorder, granted on June 1, 1869 (U.S. patent #90,646). It was designed to allow legislators to vote electronically by moving a switch. 

The device recorded votes for “yes” or “no” through an electric current. It was not well-received by Congress and was never put to use. Oh well, some ideas are better received than others.

The Trigg County coaching staff had a very good idea this season and through two games it is working extremely well. You see, Deon Edison is a 5’10,” 200-pound ’27 prospect who is also an exceedingly versatile athlete capable of playing anywhere from running back, to nose guard, to linebacker. Now if you really think about that…you are talking about a really vast and inclusive set of athletic skills.

Now, is Edison fast? The track coach seems to think so as he is among the team’s more accomplished sprinters.

How many nose guards run sprints on the track team? Not a ton, we assure you.

Is Edison strong and powerful? Well, Coach Dixie Jones‘s specialty is building strength and power in football players and that is why Coach Ezell has Dixie running the strength program and coordinating his defense.

Is Edison “twitchy?” Is he “explosive?”

Through two games, thus far; Edison is among the team leaders in the following categories: rushing, scoring, tackles, TFLs, and QB-sacks. All of that sounds pretty dad-burn twitchy and explosive to me!

Edison and the Trigg County Wildcats are playing really well, a trend that should continue as long as the Wildcats stay focused and healthy. The frontline players, manning the starting slots, are really athletic and skilled. Some of the depth isn’t, but that is a common lament among KHSAA coaches.

Trigg opened the year posting 54-points on 5A, Ohio County. Then Trigg entertained a team which was thought the class of 3A much of ’24 (finishing 12-1) in Hart County. Hart County is now getting to experience being the “hunted” as opposed to being the “hunter,” this season.

This Hart County (Raiders) squad sports one of the hottest names in KHSAA coaching circles (Chad Griffin) and has come off an opening loss to one of the hotter teams in Western KY, 4A Logan County. Logan is 2-0 with wins over Hart, 19-15, and 6A McCracken, 33-16.

Hart entered the Trigg County game a “hot team.” The Raiders being tough was news to no-one.

Not withstanding that, Trigg played Hart County, nip and tuck, toe to toe, with Raiders narrowly escaping, hides intact. With the score 35-34, Ezell decided to “go for the win” in regulation by trying to score two-point conversion instead of the customary one-point place kick. The Wildcats came up inches short, and Hart County escaped 1-1 with Trigg falling to the same record.

Going forward, Trigg County gets a Marshall County (5A) team at home this coming Friday Night at Perdue Field. The “Marshalls” are coming off a 30-28 loss to Caldwell County after opening the season with a convincing win over 1A, Crittenden County (42-29).

This is another opportunity to benefit from the multipliers when the RPI gets released later to determine seeding in the playoffs upcoming at season’s end. Marshall County is a well coached team, with 5A talent, and a 5A roster.

However, we like Trigg County in this matchup. The Wildcats have loads of talent, sport one of the more accomplished offensive lines in the area, and boast one of the area’s better running back prospects in Davaree Gude.

This will be a real test for the Wildcats. However, coming out of this game 2-1, with a pair of 5A victories and a one-point, heart breaker to a team which won 12-games a year ago and had many pieces back from that roster, headed into a home game with 6A Hopkinsville just may be the “cat bird’s seat” position needed, ratings percentage index-wise, should the W’s stack the way they are capable.

We can’t make it any simpler than that. We’ll see you at the game!

This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!

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