Gridiron Glory's Top Players: Trevante Coleman

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Story Created: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:00 PM

Story Updated: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:41 PM

This year we asked every high school football coach in the Local 6 viewing area to vote for the top players in 2012.  The only rule was the coaches couldn't vote for their own players.  The coaches voted Paducah Tilghman linebacker Trevante Coleman #8 player of Gridiron Glory.
 
Last year in his sophomore season, Coleman came in as a relative unknown. He changed that quickly.
 
"We went into last year with Paducah Tilghman thinking that JD Harmon was the one that we had to look out for," Crittenden County coach Al Starnes said. "Next thing we know, we had this Coleman kid coming out of nowhere. He is a tremendous athlete."
 
Coaches say he started turning heads during Tilghman's opener with Lone Oak.
 
"Nobody blocked him," Reidland coach Shaun Thomas said. "He was in the backfield pretty much every play. If you get a player like that, where nobody can block him, it makes it hard to run anything on offense."
 
"We tried to block him with our fullbacks, and we couldn't handle him at all," Lone Oak coach Jack Haskins remembered. "Hopefully this year we can change that a little bit."
 
Tune in Tuesday at 10pm to find out who the coaches think is #7.
 
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Who had this week's Gridiron Glory Performance of the Week?

  • Paducah Tilghman QB Jessie Dunigan- 17 of 23 for 212 yards passing, 2 touchdowns
  • Graves County RB Zack Katzman- 21 carries for 176 yards, 1 touchdown
  • Mayfield RB Jonathan Jackson- School record 320 yards rushing, 4 touchdowns
  • Caldwell County QB Elijah Sindelar- 238 total yards, 1 touchdown
  • Lone Oak RB D'Juan Sherrill- 16 carries for 91 yards
  • Murray's backfield- 240 yards rushing against #1 Owensboro Catholic
  • Mayfield QB Jake Guhy- 18 of 21 for 248 yards, 1 touchdown
  • Caldwell County RB Jaylen Boyd- 238 yards, 5 touchdowns