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The camera tells you the truth, sometimes a truth you don’t want to hear (or see)

Zai’Vion Meads is a hulking 6’4,” 270-pound DT who just finished his sophomore season at Louisville’s Central High. He had a fine year, but Meads is ready to take things up a notch. Meads is being recruited by numerous division ones, from the Power 4 to the mid-majors. We don’t know where this prospect ultimately lands, but we believe it will come along with a full grant-in-aid and some NIL money before it is all said and done. Meads has done his part this offseason to help along the process. He has entrusted his development to offseason training and conditioning guru, Chris Vaughn, from “Aspirations Gym.” Many a Derby City athlete has done the same and many of them came out the other side exactly where they were intending to land. We don’t believe this process will end for Meads any other way than off the charts successfully.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”

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Louisville, KY: There is a rumor around that the camera adds weight to the subject of a photograph. You may have heard this.

The saying “the camera adds 10 pounds” or “the camera adds 15 pounds” describes the perceived effect of lens distortion, particularly with wide angle lenses, which can make a person appear wider than they are. That is the theory, anyway.

The phenomenon is more noticeable on close-ups or when the subject isn’t facing the camera directly. Personally, I think it is a load of poppycock. You look how you look live, on TV, or in a photograph.

It is like someone asking, “Do these jeans make my backside look large?” Your backside may look plenty ample; but, it’s not the jeans.

Zai’Vion Meads plays football for the Central Yellow Jackets in Louisville, Kentucky. Like a lot of athletes in the Derby City, Meads has been training with fitness and training guru, Chris Vaughn, at his Aspirations Gym (Fitness Center).

Both Vaughn and Meads have good news for you, the reader. If you don’t like the way you look, there is something you can do about it. Meads did it. Meads has never looked better.

Meads physique has undergone quite an offseason transformation. We have seen Louisville football prospects undergo similar transformations. Players who work with Vaughn make visible definitive gains. Many of them get offered grants in aid too and at the highest levels of college football.

In Meads, it isn’t as if Vaughn had nothing with which to work. Meads is a 6’4,” 270-pound DT who is a ’27 prospect. Meads got run in 13-games a year ago as only a sophomore.

Central routinely fields among the better rosters in the KHSAA at any level of play. I don’t care if you are a 6A powerhouse, if you have Coach Dantzler’s Yellow Jackets on the schedule you better fasten that chinstrap, nice and tight, Mister!

Central was 9-4 a year ago. They lost in the Regional Championship game to a Christian Academy-Louisville. CAL is a team that just won another championship in ’24, for the third consecutive season.

Central beat CAL by 20-points (48-28) in the regular season on October 18, 2024. That’s just how good Central is. The Yellow Jackets are a threat to win any game, against any team, regardless of that team’s student enrollment.

Meads performed very well for a sophomore getting 13-games of varsity run on one of Kentucky’s deeper and more talented rosters. Meads registered 56-tackles from his DT position, with a pair of QB-sacks and a forced fumble.

Players often make huge jumps between the sophomore and junior seasons. Meads got a jump-start on his jump at Aspirations this offseason. How big a jump he experienced will be a fun storyline to cover.

Meads was hard enough to block in ’24, prior to the transformation, as only a sophomore. Imagine how hard it will be to contain Meads a year older, a year more mature, and having added muscle, explosion, power, and quick-twitch muscle fiber. Glad I don’t have to try it!

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

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