This is the 6th annual Friday Night Victors All Blog team. As usual, it was tough with 16 teams and us picking an offense and a defense, especially with so many of our coverage teams making the playoffs this season. There will be 12 players on each side of the ball plus a kicker and a punter. We reached out to every coach asking for nominations. We heard back from almost everyone. Nobody will be listed twice. We also included our Overall Player of the Year, as well as, Defensive Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year. We also included three Wildcard players, that are too good to keep off of our team. Click on the player’s name and you will see highlights for most of the players. As always let’s cheer those who made the team. We understand that good players won’t make it. That’s okay, it’s not a slight. These are the players that we went with.
Overall Co-Player of the Year
Jack Mills Airport RB/DB and Brian Booms Flat Rock RB/DB
FNV on Mills: Jack Mills is an absolute beast. It didn’t matter if he was running with the ball, blocking for a teammate or making a tackle; he was going to make you feel it. In an Airport team full of stars, he was the brightest.
FNV on Booms: Brian Booms is a great high school football player. He had arguably the greatest season of any high school athlete ever to don the green and gold of Flat Rock High.
Defensive Player of the Year
Jake Iott Whiteford LB
FNV on Iott: Jake could play and star for any team we cover. He is a great high school football player.
Offensive Player of the Year
Izaiah Wright Carlson RB
FNV on Wright: We expect big things from Izaiah over the next few seasons. He reminds this writer of the great Fred Russell who starred at Romulus High School and Iowa before playing in the NFL some two decades ago.
All Blog Defense
DL Adam Nabozny, Monroe Senior
DL Matt Foor, Airport Senior
DL Drew Knaggs, Whiteford Senior
DL Gavin Labadie, Riverview Senior
DB Logan Loveland Monroe Senior
DB Ryin Ruddy, Whiteford Senior
DB Buddy Snodgrass, SMCC Senior
DB Jackson Zachary, Carlson Senior
LB Cole Kreger, Erie Mason Senior
LB Cooper Nye, Airport Senior
LB William Gaskell, Milan Senior
LB Cooper Buhl, Dundee Senior
P Mason Crowley, Grosse Ile Junior
All Blog Offense
QB Graham Junge, Flat Rock Junior
RB Dean Thomas, Ida Junior
RB Hunter DeBarr, Whiteford Senior
RB Evan Marcon, SMCC Senior
OL Jake Nagy, Carlson Senior
OL Jackson Wertenberger, Ida Junior
OL Hunter Faunce Bedford, Junior
OL Jack Iott, Whiteford Senior
OL Mike Beaudrie, Flat Rock Senior
WR Colin Nowak, Airport
WR/TE Kolby Masserant Whiteford Senior
WR Braiden Whitaker, Dundee Senior
K Kyler Ostrowski Carlson, Senior
Wildcards
TE/LB/K Nolan Zajac Airport, Senior
QB/LB Micah Smith, Huron Senior
RB/DB Ian Adams, Riverview Junior
Others Considered for Overall Player of the Year: Izaiah Wright Carlson, Jake Iott Whiteford, Cooper Nye Airport, Ian Adams Riverview, Ryin Ruddy Whiteford, Nolan Zajac Airport.
Others Considered for the Defensive Player of the Year: William Gaskell Milan, Cole Kreger Erie Mason, Adam Nabonzy Monroe, Cooper Nye Airport.
Others Considered for Offensive Player of the Year: Cooper Nye Airport, Graham Junge Flat Rock, Dean Thomas Ida, Ian Adam Riverview, Kyler Ostrowski Carlson, Nolan Zajac Airport