High School Sports

Kentucky.com’s high school football defensive player of the week (Week 2)

This week’s poll has ended. Congratulations to Isaac Poe of Logan County, our Week 2 Kentucky.com Defensive Player of the Week.

Thanks for voting. A new poll will come out next week.

Each week, we highlight some of the best high school football individual performances in Kentucky for the Kentucky.com Defensive Player of the Week. They were selected by digital sports writer Jared Peck (@HLpreps) via stats uploaded to KHSAA.org by midnight each Monday or game boxes submitted to jpeck@herald-leader.com on the night of the game.

Each week’s top five will be announced on Twitter at @HLpreps and the winner will be listed in our “Friday Night Lights” preview story online and with each subsequent week’s poll.

Here are this week’s nominees presented in alphabetical order. Vote for your favorite. Voting ends at noon Friday.

Miss someone? If you’d like to nominate a player’s performance for future weeks, contact Jared Peck via email at jpeck@herald-leader.com.

Past defensive POTW winners

Week 1: Elijah Adams, Scott County.

Paducah Tilghman fans wait to take the field before the 2021 UK Orthopaedics State Football Finals Class 3A championship game at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.
Paducah Tilghman fans wait to take the field before the 2021 UK Orthopaedics State Football Finals Class 3A championship game at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com

This story was originally published August 30, 2022 at 4:28 PM.

Jared Peck
Lexington Herald-Leader
Jared Peck, the Herald-Leader’s Digital Sports Writer, covers high school athletics and has been with the company as a writer and editor for more than 20 years. Support my work with a digital subscription
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