If KPGFootball were to sit down with the Ethan J. Atchley, who was LCA’s head football coach in 2018, and ask him if he made any mistakes last year professionally, we think we know what Coach might say. While LCA had a good year, going 9-4 and losing the Regional Championship game to Somerset on Somerset’s one yard line on the wrong side of a 35-31 margin, that doesn’t mean his was a perfect season. Looking back on the year, how did it take him 4 games before Tyler Morris hit the lineup?
Before we get blown up with “he was a freshman,” a fact of which we are aware (believe it or not), he was hardly a typical freshman. He was a Team Kentucky Future Star after all. Most of them find themselves on the Friday night roster in 9th grade.
Aside from the Team Kentucky thing, both Xavier Brown and Anthony Johns, freshmen, played in all 13 of LCA’s games. Elijah Hammond, freshman, played in 12 of the 13 games. Frankie Knight, freshman, played in 11 of the 13 games. So spare me the “he was a freshman” crap. Maybe Morris started out the 2018 season injured or something.
No matter, 2018 is over and Tyler Morris, who made our freshman All-State Football team with 24 tackles, 4TFLs, and 3 QB sacks (second on the team) in his 9 games of action won’t sit the first four games of 2019, let us assure you. Why? Well, because he may be the best football player in Kentucky’s class of 2022 at any position. While that is a mouthful, that doesn’t make it wrong.
First of all, he may be the fastest player in the class. Tyler ran a 4.58-second, 40 yard dash at the Western Kentucky’s invitation only prospect camp and registered a 4.23-second, short-shuttle. Tyler also turned in 7.2-second L-cone time. This tells you quite a bit about his athleticism.
He broad jumps 9’6″ and has a vertical leap of 37 inches which tells you all his running times are corroborated by his explosiveness. As for his power, this rising sophomore bench presses 255-pounds, squats 380-pounds, deadlifts 400-pounds. At 6-0 and weighing 185-pounds, Morris, who’s put together like a brick crap-house, may be the most powerful and explosive player in Kentucky’s 2022 class.
Here’s why he’s a football player in a nut shell. The kid has played RB, NG, OLB, and DE while at LCA (including his MS years) but is capable of playing any position on LCA’s defense from NG to FS. On offense he can easily play any of those 11 positions too. He’s just an All-American football player who makes a team better by running out of the tunnel.
Morris is getting close to being offered several places according to our sources. He was invited to Valparaiso for prospect camp and to WKU where the coaches LOVED him. We can vouch for the WKU camp as we were there, covered it, and exit-interviewed the coaches who told us they loved him.
Is Tyler Morris Kentucky’s very best Class of 2022 LB? He may be. Judging by his combine numbers, there is sufficient data to make that claim. However, he could be the best DE, RB, WR, FS, and corner prospect too. We know this, he’s the best something so we’ll just call him Kentucky’s best class of 2022 football player. Yeah, we’ll go with that.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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