Prep football standouts from Week 1

Each week throughout the 2025 KHSAA prep football season, we’re going to recognize the standouts from Friday night.

We’ll also provide 10 takeaways from Friday’s contests.

The key categories offensively are 200-yard passers, 100-yard rushers and 100-yard receivers. On defense, we’ll look at the top tacklers and players who forced turnovers.

We won’t forget about the kickers either, spotlighting the top guys who put the ball through the uprights.

But first, 10 takeaways from Week 1:

— How exciting is Week 1? Everyone is 0-0 and starts off with optimism and excitement from around town. I personally was at Ryle-CovCath and it’s just a pleasant sight to see football back with attendance numbers high and the buzz in the air.

— About the Ryle-CovCath game, I know the Colonels took the loss, but they should come out of that game with a lot of positives. They battled with the 6A runner-up to the finish and the Raiders by no means dominated that one. A couple costly turnovers from the Colonels led to 10 Ryle points and that was basically the difference in the game.

— Even with the passing game not doing much, Ryle’s Jacob Savage and Dameyn Anness are a load to bring down and their running style will wear teams down throughout the year.

— A storybook finish for Highlands and Tayden Lorenzen. He’s going to be featured it looks heavily in the Bluebirds offensive plans as he threw a pass, ran the ball 14 times and caught two passes. Anything near the goal line, you better put a couple hats on No. 22. He’s also playing defense.

— A really cool scene in Erlanger Friday night as St. Henry played their first official varsity football game in school history. Roughly 90 years in the making, the Crusaders pulled out all the stops to make Friday night special.

— Lloyd Memorial looks to be showing no affects of losing a lot of their top skill guys to graduation. They earned their most lopsided win over NewCath this century and have won three of their last five over the Thoroughbreds after losing 19 straight from 2001-2016.

— Campbell County returned three kickoffs for touchdowns against Scott in the season opening win in a game that featured 98 points.

— Newport and Lloyd makes for an interesting game this week, both coming off blowout victories. The Wildcats defeated Ludlow 47-7.

— Bellevue forced seven (!) turnovers in their win over Trimble County.

— Simon Kenton’s breakneck pace is no more. They ran just 45 plays in Friday’s 20-10 victory over Dixie Heights. A team used to seeing games in the 40’s and 50’s in their old regime, they look to be a little more methodical in their approach now. The most important stat? They’re 1-0.

And your Week 1 standouts…

200-yard passers

Trey Cook, Scott — 21/29, 381 yards, 5 TD

Mason Fields, Dixie Heights — 13/25, 216 yards

Michael Chaisson, Boone County — 8/19, 200 yards, 3 TD

100-yard rushers

Kendall Buck-Barber, Newport — 19 rushes, 181 yards, 2 TD

Keagan Maher, Cooper — 26 rushes, 181 yards, TD

Tristan Woodyard, Bellevue — 20 rushes, 148 yards, 3 TD

Charles Oglesby, Holy Cross — 8 rushes, 133 yards, TD

Cash Harney, Covington Catholic — 15 rushes, 131 yards, TD

Landon Brown, Simon Kenton — 12 rushes, 122 yards, TD

100-yard receivers

Justin Hardy, Scott — 9 receptions, 120 yards, TD

Aaron Hampton, Scott — 3 receptions, 112 yards, 2 TD

William Randall, Boone County — 3 receptions, 102 yards 2 TD

Top Tacklers (minimum 8)

Alexander Yutze, Walton-Verona — 16 tackles, tackle for loss

Luke Tucker, Dixie Heights — 13 tackles, tackle for loss

Cooper Burch, Walton-Verona — 13 tackles, tackle for loss

Jackson Payne, Covington Catholic — 11 tackles

Brad Roaden, Dixie Heights — 10 tackles, 2 tackles for loss

Deaken Reed, Ludlow — 10 tackles, tackle for loss

Cash Myers, Covington Catholic — 10 tackles

Logan Sanning, Covington Catholic — 10 tackles

Kai Workman, Ryle — 9 tackles

Lincon Tomlinson, Lloyd Memorial — 8 tackles, tackle for loss, sack

Avery Conrad, Lloyd Memorial — 8 tackles, tackle for loss, sack

Marjae Patterson, Lloyd Memorial — 8 tackles, tackle for loss, sack

Alex Riedinger, Campbell County — 8 tackles

Jaymauri Duncan, Cooper — 8 tackles

Turnover chain

Kayne Ross, Bellevue — 2 interceptions

Dylan Lee, Ryle — 2 interceptions

Kayveion Sharp, Newport — interception return for TD

Brayden Donato, Walton-Verona — interception return for TD

Stephen Specht, Bellevue — 1 interception, fumble recovery

Ben Trimnell — interception

Nicholas Cozzi, Bishop Brossart — interception

Mason McKinzie, Bishop Brossart — interception

Cade Anthrop, Campbell County — interception

Ryker Campbell, Cooper — interception

Zach Brooks, Covington Catholic — interception

Brayden Bryzgot, Dixie Heights — interception

Jackson Higgins, Dixie Heights — interception

Michael Chames, Holmes — interception

Thomas Burke, Holmes — interception

Dustin Wilson, Holy Cross — interception

Andre Englemon Jr., Ludlow — interception

Kendall Buck-Barber, Newport — interception

Peyton Zinser, Scott — interception

Andrew Lynn, Walton-Verona — interception

Patrick Vogt, Bellevue — fumble recovery

Derrick Fortner, Bellevue — fumble recovery

Beckett Meersman, Bishop Brossart — fumble recovery, 2 sacks

Atticus Prost, Bishop Brossart — fumble recovery

Max Cole, Campbell County — fumble recovery

Alex Riedinger, Campbell County — fumble recovery

Matt Dahms, Campbell County — fumble recovery

Christian Brown, Cooper — fumble recovery

Ryan Miller, Lloyd Memorial — fumble recovery

Ashton Hummel, Ludlow — fumble recovery

Michael Newborn, Simon Kenton — fumble recovery

Sawyer McClure, Walton-Verona — fumble recovery

Kicking Standouts (minimum 3 points scored)

Blake Minor, Campbell County — 7/7 PAT, 1/1 FG

Gavin Moses, Ryle — 2/2 PAT, 2/2 FG

Ryan Miller, Lloyd Memorial — 4/4 PAT, 1/1 FG

Eyler Tibbs, Cooper — 1/1 PAT, 1/1 FG

Jaxon Morgan, Scott — 4/4 PAT

Rodrigo Reynoso, Newport — 3/3 PAT

(Missing stats from: Conner, Dayton, Newport Central Catholic and St. Henry)