Category Archives: football
NFL Draft Highlights (2022)
California leads the nation with five high school football alums taken in this year’s first round. The first two both hail from the Ventura/L.A. County region with Kayvon Thibodeaux from Oaks Christian going at No. 5 and then Drake London of Moorpark not far behind at No. 8. We have writeups of all 22 players […]
Inside The All-State Football Teams
We begin with a look at top 9th graders who came to our attention during the compilation of this year’s various teams. We also go over why we don’t have a separate tight end position guaranteed to be on every team plus why a third team was added to medium schools. For this year’s First...
Cali Super Bowl Alums 2022
After the worst year ever for Super Bowl alums in 2021 with six, it’s a much better, more normal showing for the Golden State in 2022 as we counted 14 former California high school players on the most updated active rosters for the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals heading into Sunday’s matchup. It’s one […]
All-State FB 2021: 1st Team Offense
Here are the main headliners for the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams and it’s also a return to a more jumbo-sized presentation (same as 2019). Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker and three of six multi-purpose players who have been selected First Team Overall. […]
All-State FB 2021: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The complete 2nd & 3rd Teams for the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams rounds out all of this year’s lists of honorees. Like the first team overall, the second team is done regardless of year in school or school size. The third team, however, is for large schools only and seniors only and...
Tom Brady’s 1st Hall of Fame vote
This will be coming during March for the inaugural class of the new California High School Football Hall of Fame, which is going to open later in 2022 at the Rose Bowl. The newly retired NFL quarterback from Serra of San Mateo only went 4-6 in both seasons of high school football, but there is […]
All-State FB 2021: Medium Schools
An Inglewood team that got a lot of flak for winning a game 106-0 nonetheless was super-talented indeed and winds up leading the pack with four players who are on these all-state teams. CIF D2-AA state champ Mater Dei Catholic was right behind with three. CIF state champions Scripps Ranch, McClymonds and Marin Catholic are […]
All-State FB 2021: Small Schools
Six players from the 2021 spring season have repeated as all-state small schools first team selections for the 2021 fall campaign. There are also three from second team in the spring who repeated but moved up to first team. The No. 1 team in the final small schools state rankings, Menlo School of Atherton, leads […]
All-State Football 2021: Juniors
Following the release of our all-state sophomores last week, it’s time to announce those who are all-state juniors for the 2021 fall season. State Junior of the Year Makai Lemon and teammate QB Malachi Nelson of Los Alamitos were no doubt no-brainers for first team. Folsom is the only school that has two on first...
