The pre-season poll for Offensive Player of the Year is posted. There are a host of qualified candidates but much will depend on how their team fares in league play.
Airport’s Jodeci Mays ran for over 1,600 yards and 22 touchdown’s last season while leading the Jets to a 2nd place league finish. The elusive Mays will undoubtedly be the #1 weapon of first year coach Adam Barber.
Huron’s Sterling Wilson ran for nearly 1,300 yards and 11 touchdowns for the pass happy Chiefs. Look for Wilson’s numbers to rise this year as the Huron will have to go with a first year quarterback.
Milan’s Joe Dunn was a solid #2 ball carrier for the Big Reds last season. He still managed to rush for over 600 yards and 6 touchdowns for the playoff qualifying Big Reds.
Brian McCullough from Jefferson led the Bears in rushing last season with over 800 yards and 6 touchdowns. Look for those numbers to rise as the Bears field a better team this season.
Many may not have heard of SMCC’s Jack Cusumano but he quietly fan for over 600 yards and 6 touchdowns as the Falcons 4th option in the backfield last year. Look for Cusumano to switch to QB this year while running the Falcons sneaky offensive attack.
Riverview’s Ali Saad emerged midway through the season as a quick yet durable running back for coach Jeff Stergalas. Saad ran for over 800 yards and 10 touchdowns with 500 yards coming in the Bucs last three games.
Grosse Ile’s Robbie White is the lone underclassman of the bunch. The Junior signal caller threw for over 1,000 yards and 14 touchdowns as a Sophomore and will have one of the best receivers in southeast Michigan to throw to in Senior James Cameron.
There are some solid players to choose from and I undoubtledly left some other worthy players off of this list. I was careful to not mention two players from each team so the voting wouldn’t be split. Others worthy of mention are Milan’s Leo Pittman, Jefferson’s Jake Sterling, Grosse Ile’s Cameron and SMCC’s Luke Yinger and Andrew Lamour.
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What do you think of Huron's WR Alex Wellman? He is not known around the league, but I went to a Huron practice and he looks good. I think he will be a surprise to many this year.
Bosman missed 2, one ball was over thrown.
Bosman can barley even catch he is mostly an defensive player,who ever said he was the base of the pirates offensive game plan he dropped so many passes last year in some key games for thew Pirates. Riverview has a lot of talented Wide outs including cory turner
Ok GI was pounded my smcc last year (61- 20) or something? but point being, Cameron had his 200 yard game because he was running outs and comeback routes against 2nd and 3rd team dbs. GI could go ahead and run those short pass routes. 1. that was taking up the clock, making it impossible for a comeback. (one wasnt really possible) 2. SMCC was up by a ton, so it wasnt really a factor even to them.
GI had more yards passing than the gue in the state title game @ FF, now are you going to tell me that they had anywhere near the passing offense? not a chance. Kater v White. No comparison at all. head over heels. Gue's WR Dejong v Cameron. Once again no comparison whatsoever. Dejong by a longshot. If smcc had needed to they could have shutdown the passing game of GI. So honestly i have not been impressed by cameron or white yet. Until they are in a legit game with a legit team and are putting up numbers that mean something besides stat padders when they are down on teams, then they will be as good as their hype. We'll see this season.
Dan Boisture and Blake Smolen each had more yards and catches for GI than Cameron in the 2004 Season.
Wow i guess he just exploded against CC. He did run nice routes and had good hands. He had a bit of an attitude on the field however... he needs to lose that.
Cameron had 43 catches for 633 yards.
white is as good a quarterback the league has seen and cameron is as good as any WR, neither will get POTY awards because there team wont win the league and white is a junior, look at howey last year, mays should have won but was a junior and dint win league
Im not sure what Cameeron's final numbers were but I am sure they were better than that. He had 250 against SMCC alone.
Transferred to play with Bolster?
Well, just looking locally for me I could argue that my neighbor Marc Polce was a pretty good receiver with 39 receptions for 697 yards as a junior. He transferred to Dundee for his senior.