WR, Treston Kay, Class of 2025

WR, Treston Kay

There was a time in the not so distant past when KPGFootball would have told you we don’t cover sixth grade football players. The same used to be said (by us) concerning 7th graders too, so try not to take it personally Class of 2025.

The reasoning we used to give is the anatomical development of a 6th or 7th grader is sufficiently far enough along to really tell that much about a kid playing a sport like football. For the seventh graders, our position changed when we met Kiyaunta Goodwin out of Louisville. He was 6-7 and weighed 330-pounds in the 7th grade and getting offered by the likes of Georgia and Kentucky, among others.

These FBS, power 5 coaches are the elite in spying talent. Their very livelihoods depend on it. So, if they are willing to go out on a limb and offer a 7th grader, then we should take a closer look at athletes at that stage of development too.

However, surely 6th grade is too young to tell much, right? Well, we thought so and then we met Cole Hodge and Joshuah Keith.

Keith attended the Murray State QB camp and won outstanding QB grades 7th-10th and was a sixth grader at the time. Cole Hodge entered the game at QB in last year’s Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars Classic with Kentucky trailing 28-7 with a little over 7 minutes remaining and Tennessee celebrating up and down the sideline. All Hodge did was calmly lead Kentucky to a 28-28 tie at the end of regulation and then led them to a winning field goal, curtesy of Colin Fratus, for the victory ripped from the jowls of a blow-out.

So now Ricco Hughes (KY) and Josh Jones (TN), the respective Directors of Future Stars football, adding a 6th grade game. There was a time KPGFootball would have been rather vociferously opposed to such. Now, let’s just say we have seen enough to merit a change of position on opinions looking to us as less and less accurate as we go along.

From what we are hearing from staff who conducted the combines, diminutive Treston Kay, from Hopkinsville, Kentucky will prove to be among the most potent weapons on the field for Team Kentucky Future Stars (6th) grade when they convene camp for the June 15 Classic. Treston, who also plays basketball, took back up his football regimen immediately upon basketball ending sometime in January of 2019. He’s been at it non-stop.

Kay auditioned for the staff in Barren County, Kentucky on or about April 13, 2019. While measuring in the high 4-foot range in height, but possessing long enough limbs to indicate he will certainly experience substantial growth before it is all said and done, Kay blistered the 40-yard sprint in Barren County at 5.5 seconds.

While some of you may think a 5.5-second, 40-time, isn’t that fast, go out to your elementary school’s gym class, bring a stop-watch, and time some of their 40s. Trust us, we know WAY more about this than any of you reading this article and 5.5-seconds in the 40 for a 4-foot something, 6th grader is flying.

We are unsure how Coach Southerland at HMS will deploy Treston Kay once enrolled at HMS. Southerland had the best corner per square inch we say in middle school last year in departing 8th grader Trushaun Matt. Matt was selected a MS All-Stater by us and we here he is expected to challenge for early playing time on Friday nights for HHS as early as next season. We would think one possible deployment for Kay would be his plugging into Matt’s old slot at corner.

Treston made the Kentucky team at WR. We expect to see him against Tennessee trying to get over the top of the Tennessee defense for down field opportunities. At his height he may catch coverage sleeping on him. With his speed and his long arms adding deceptive length to his short frame, Tennessee better not sleep on him long or they will spend the afternoon breathing in his dust.

This is F.W. Long (#Brotherhood) reporting for KPGFootball reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!

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Two-time winner of Kentucky Press Association awards for excellence in writing and reporting news stories while Managing Editor of the Jackson (KY) Times-Voice

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