If we have to tell you some of Kentucky’s very best football players live in and around Paintsville, Kentucky, you might not know enough about football to enjoy membership in this particular site. They may not have invented Kentucky middle and high school football (like many of them think) but the truth doesn’t lie too far from there.
We have been really high on Carter Conley from Paintsville, Kentucky since seeing him perform at our All-State Mountain Combine this past summer. Conley can play QB/RB/or really anywhere you need a fast, mean, agile football player, which could be anywhere.
This past season, leading Johnson County on an improbable run to the Region 3 Championship (lost to McCracken in the Semis) in the KYMSFA, 7th grade Football Championships (after starting the year 1-3), Conley was deployed mostly as a tight-end. The 5-9, 135 pounder, also played some half-back, QB, PK, and punter. Carter was selected to and played on Team Kentucky’s FBU elite and has now audition for Team Kentucky Future Stars.
Conley registered a 5.22 second, 40-yard dash at the Future Stars’ combine this past weekend. It was a slow track, however, a seventh grader clocking a 5.22 second, 40, is really fast for that stage of development. Now it would be noted the way the Future Stars’ staff times 40s, where they require the player to run completely through the finish line before stopping the clock, is meant to simulate an automated time. An automated 5.22, 40-yard dash, from a Class of 2024 TE is really, really fast.
We have seen Conley clock much faster than he did this past Saturday where he had both a slow track and a staff simulating automated times. Conley, in the cool mountain air running on turf in Pikeville, Kentucky, was hand-timed in the low 4.6s in the 40-yard dash, short-shuttled in the 4.8s, and ran the L-Cone drill in 7.7-seconds. All of those times should highlight what kind of athlete we’re talking about here, together with the versatility to provide maximum utility to the Future Star’s roster.
In a game where it is commonly noted that speed kills, KPGFootball has to highly prize a 2024 prospect, like Conley, whose speed, agility, and quickness makes Conley a football assassin. When the rosters get announced, the Future Stars’ staff would be gravely in error to omit this name from its 7th grade roster. If we were picking the team, he would be on our roster (for whatever that is worth).
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is F. W. Long reminding all of you ballers out there that #WeGotUCovered and to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE.
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