Kentucky.com’s high school football defensive player of the week (Week 8)
This week’s poll has ended.
Congratulations to Pike County Central’s Skiler Ray, 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.
Week 5: Madisonville-North Hopkins’ Kirk T. LaGrange and Clinton County’s Bradley Young.
Week 6: Henry Clay’s Frank Niyonyishu.
Week 7: Madison Southern’s Everett King.
This story was originally published October 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM.
