’27 QB an all-timer and among the KHSAA’s more pursued prospects
Zane Johnson has started at Trinity High School since night one, snap one, of his freshman year. There aren’t too many signal callers at the Kentucky 6A flagship program who can say that. Matter of fact, here’s a list of former Trinity QBs who started as freshmen: Johnson. I believe you get our point. Johnson has led the Shamrocks to three (3) consecutive, 6A football championships and an overall record of 38-7 with another season to go. In addition to the “Big Ass Fans” Large School All-State FB Team and the Lasater’s “Nifty Nichols” preseason team, Johnson has now won our feature of the week. When you’re hot…
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
Link to Large School All-State FB Reveal Show
Lasaters Preseason Nifty-Nichols
Big Ass Fans from Lexington, Kentucky has a simple corporate goal. The company is “creating a more comfortable world,” one fan at a time.
The logo is the rear of a donkey (Fanny) swishing its tail back and forth. The trademarked logo is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate identities across the commonwealth and has come to represent commitment to quality, cutting-edge innovation, and product reliability.
Big Ass Fans is so much more than just a gigantic fan. It is gigantic quality, gigantic performance, and a gigantic commitment to reliability and innovation. Its size is far from the only selling point about our product.
Our product is a Kentucky Comfort Creator. These days, isn’t that exactly what Kentucky needs?
This week our feature is about Zane Johnson, ’27 QB from Louisville’s Trinity High. Johnson has been stockpiling Divison I, FBS offers. First, there is the matter of his leaving Trinity with another title.
Should Johnson be able to pull it off, it would be the 31st of the program’s illustrious history, and the fourth straight with Johnson under center. Wouldn’t that be something?
“Fanny” is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate logos…
Friday Night Fletch, “KPGFootball”
Louisville, KY: One has to wonder if Zane Johnson isn’t the best QB to ever lead a team in the history of the KHSAA. It is an entirely legitimate question.
Before we get beat up by all the Hunter Cantwell, Jeff Brohm, James Quick, and Tim Couch fans, we aren’t saying Johnson is Kentucky’s all-time, QB, college prospect. We are suggesting he may be Kentucky’s all time, high school QB. In our opinion, there has never been a better QB walk out under the Friday Night Lights and position under center than Trinity’s Zane Johnson.
That is our opinion. We are entirely entitled to have one. Our opinion on such a matter is more valuable than most others.
We have done our fair share of promoting Johnson since his middle school playing days. We have been talking and writing about him since way back then. Johnson sure hasn’t disappointed us.
Johnson has made several of our Big Ass Fans, Large School All-State Football teams. Johnson has made our Lasaters, Preseason, Nifty-Nichols squad. Johnson has won several of our weekly awards, including this one, right now.
Johnson enters his senior season coming off quite the fine junior campaign. Johnson completed 176 of his 258 passing attempts in ’25, good for a 68.2% completion rate. Johnson threw for 2,925-yards and 52-TDs with only three (3) INTs against one of the toughest schedules in the Bluegrass. Johnson also scored a TD rushing.
Over his three years at QB, Johnson has won 38-games, three (3) 6A titles, and only lost seven (7) times. Should Trinity win 12-games in ’26, and another 6A title (Would you be willing to bet against that?), Johnson will leave the Shamrocks winning 50 or more games and four (4) titles.
We are going to borrow a trick from Coach Lyons. List all the Trinity QBs who have ever led the Shamrocks to four consecutive titles with 50 or more wins? Here is our answer, Johnson. List all the KHSAA QBs, at any level of play, who have led any team to four consecutive titles and 50 or more wins? Let’s see…put us down for Johnson once more.
If the top priority for a QB is to win games…check! If the top priority is to win titles…check!
Just about any metric you consult, completion percentage, touchdowns to interceptions ratio, wins, titles, game management, identifying fronts, identifying coverages, ball-handling, clock/game management…check, check, check, check, ad infinitum. Johnson checks every box.
We have one more box for him. The Big Ass Fans, Kentucky Comfort Creator, Feature of the Week…check!
That might have been the last one…
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball; reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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