Kentucky.com’s high school football defensive player of the week (Week 5)
This week’s poll has ended.
Due to an unforeseen extra step to vote that hurt participation, only two votes were recorded this week.
But congratulations to Madisonville-North Hopkins’ Kirk T. LaGrange and Clinton County’s Bradley Young, this week’s Kentucky.com Defensive Players of the Week.
A new poll will come out Tuesday. Thanks for voting!
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.
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 Defensive Players of the Week
Week 1: Lexington Catholic’s Mark Hosinski.
Week 2: Montgomery County’s Jaimen Caba.
Week 3: Calloway County’s Brayden Winchester.
Week 4: Garrard County’s RJ Blair.
This story was originally published September 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM.
