Come and select who you think deserves to be your preseason football player of the year on our poll.
The high school football season is right around the corner, but first let's determine who you, the reader, believes will be the best of the best.
This is your chance to vote on who you think will be the best player of the football season from the Rockford area in our Football Preseason Player of the Year Poll.
Choose from our 14 nominees, or select "Other" and then send an e-mail to [email protected] with your entry. Please vote only once per day on the poll.
The poll will stay open until midnight on Saturday, with the winner being announced next Tuesday, Sept. 2.
First, you can check out some of the Players to Watch stories that our Jay Taft and Matt Trowbridge have done this preseason. This should help get you ready for the football season. The list of nominees and the poll are below.
Preseason football stories
- Top 15 linebackers to Watch headed into the 2025 season
- Here are 17 of the area's top running backs to watch
- Check out 14 of the top offensive linemen to watch
- See our top 11 defensive backs to watch
- Find 11 of our top pass catchers to watch
- Top 8 QBs to watch for the 2025 season
Preseason Football Player of the Year nominees
- Ben Bucher, RB/DB, senior, Belvidere North
- Dominic Cacciatore, QB, junior, Boylan
- Caden Considine, RB/LB, senior, Byron
- Jackson Cook, DB/WR, junior, Harlem
- Mark Detwiler, FB/LB, senior, Stockton
- Aiden Jarvis, DL/OL, senior, Hononegah
- Jeremiah Luke, OL/DL, senior, Stockton
- Dylan Manning, RB/FS, junior, Rochelle
- Erick Roman, LB/RB, senior, Belvidere North
- Alec Schlichting, RB, senior, Lena-Winslow
- Andrew Talbert, QB, junior, Byron
- Keysan Taylor, Edge/TE, junior, Guilford
- Messiah Tilson, DB/RB/WR, senior, Guilford
- Draven Zier, RB, senior, Eastland/Pearl City
- OTHER (e-mail your candidate to [email protected])
Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at [email protected] and sign up for the Rockford High School Sports Newsletter here at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears and Blackhawks to local youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star.
This article originally appeared on Rockford Register Star: Vote for the Rockford area's HS football preseason player of the year
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