High School Sports

Kentucky.com’s high school football defensive player of the week (Week 6)

The poll has closed.

Congratulations to Madison Southern’s Preston Williams.

Thanks for voting. A new poll comes out on Tuesday.

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 winner will be listed here and in our “Friday Night Lights” preview story online and each subsequent week’s poll.

Here are this week’s nominees presented in alphabetical order. Vote for your favorite. Voting ends at 5 p.m. 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 winners

Week 1: South Laurel’s Noah Smith.

Week 2: Pulaski County’s Ethan Idlewine.

Week 3: Fulton County’s Brayden Eakes.

Week 4: Leslie County’s Brayden Holland.

Week 5: Madison Southern’s Ethan Diaz

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This story was originally published October 1, 2024 at 3:27 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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