Treyvian Bunton from Bowling Green, Kentucky was on the 7th grade, Team Kentucky Future Stars team which beat Tennessee 31-28 in overtime last year in Georgetown, Kentucky. If you look really hard at the team’s picture we have included as the featured photograph to this article, you will see him seated along the back row close to the middle.
Bunton’s grandmother, Cheryl Hodges-Bunton, calls Trevian “Chip.” We’ve never asked Ms. Bunton but suppose the nickname stems from him either resembling or exhibiting traits or characteristics of someone in either the Hodges or Bunton families closely enough to spark instantaneous comparison.
According to writingexplained.org, the idiom has always meant or referred to something bearing a resemblance to a larger piece from which the smaller something was taken. The reference dates all the way back to 270 B.C. and, at that time, quite literally referred to either a stone or piece of wood resembling the larger piece from which it was cut. It appeared in the writing of the Greek, Theocritus’ work entitled Idyls.
Robert Sanderson, in his work entitled Sermons, wrote in 1621 Am I not a child of the same Adam…a chip of the same block, with him? John Milton, writing sometime thereafter, penned How well dost thou now appeare (not a typo, but how “appear” was spelled in Milton’s day) to be a Chip of the old block. In any event, the reference has existed quite a while and generally denotes something small being taken from something larger while retaining, in appearance or trait, similarity to that from which it came.
Now, we at KPGFootball would never take issue with anyone’s grandmother. Grandmothers, in many different communities, comprise the cornerstone of a matriarchal society and can be quite formidable. However, Cheryl Hodges-Bunton’s grandson, Treyvian, doesn’t appear to us to be a very small version of anything. Quite simply, Bunton is just a man-child, with the emphasis being on man.
Bunton, whom KPGFootball believes to be among the best interior OL or DL prospects in all of the western-end of the commonwealth of Kentucky in the Class of 2023, is a 6-2 and 285-pound bull in a china shop. Since we are spouting colloquial expressions today, KPGFootball would say…He grown.
Treyvian has very large and powerful hands that, once you find yourself in his grasp, generally denotes “game over.” Bunton is powerfully built, barrel-chested, “short-necked” kid whom we believe will play along the interior OL for his high school, next year. This summer, Bunton may find his way to OT against Tennessee next month.
As for playing tackle, Bunton is one of the few kids his height who can get away with being slotted on the outside because he has both quick and nimble feet with the length (long arms) to play taller than he measures. Treyvian is just a load who will get more and more devastating at the point of attack as he matures.
Frankly, we can’t wait to see how this kid will develop once he gets good and implanted in a top-flight HS weight program. As for his being a “Chip” off of any “old block,” If KPGFootball were on Tennessee’s DL, we would certainly hope Kentucky forgot to select the “old block,” or the bigger version of “Chip.” Rest easy Tennessee, KPGFootball doesn’t believe there to be one…at least not still in middle school.
This is F.W. Long (#Brotherhood) reporting for KPGFootball reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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