7A Region 4 Top Player Performances of the Week
Congratulations to this week's top players! We're covering the best performances from Friday's football action (using all statistics entered as of the time of writing). Enjoy!
Marlin Jones Crosses Big Stat Threshold
Starting off the list is Huntsville's Marlin Jones, who we judged to be the best player in the league this week. Jones rushed for 167 yards and two touchdowns. He's now once again averaging 100+ rushing yards (109.5) per game. His longest rush was for an incredible 79 yards.
Jones is probably looking forward to his next game, a home matchup against Albertville on Thursday. When Jones last faced the Aggies back in October of 2023, he rushed for 165 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 7.2 yards per carry.
Gamescore: 35.58
A Season-Best Effort from Jabari Davis Leads Sparkman over Bob Jones
Sparkman came up short on Friday despite Jabari Davis delivering his best game to date. Davis rushed for 123 yards and three touchdowns. The effort marked the most rushing yards he has had since back in September of 2023. He has become a key player for Sparkman: the team is 2-1 when he posts at least two rushing touchdowns, but 1-3 otherwise.
The loss snapped Sparkman's losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 3-4 record. Davis and Sparkman will look to defend their home field on Friday against James Clemens at 7:00 p.m.
Gamescore: 35.00
Malachi Foster Has Career Rushing Day
On Friday, Bob Jones got the W thanks in part to Malachi Foster playing the best football he has all season. Foster rushed for 75 yards and a touchdown, and also picked up 64 receiving yards and a touchdown, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process.all of that, rushing production came thanks to one massive run
For the year, Foster has caught 5 touchdowns while averaging 96.7 receiving yards per game. He's made a big improvement compared to last season: at this point last year, he was only averaging 34.57 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 34.83
Jl Davis Delivers Electric Effort Vs Huntsville
Austin picked up their sixth consecutive win on Friday thanks in part to Jl Davis. Nobody could stop Davis as he threw for 289 yards and three touchdowns on only 15 passes.
For the year, Davis has thrown 12 touchdowns while averaging 191.5 passing yards per game. He's made a big improvement compared to last season: at this point last year, he had five passing touchdowns.
Gamescore: 32.97
Matthews Came Up Big in Sparkman's 56-37 Loss
The second Sparkman player making an appearance here is Jamarion Matthews, and for good reason. He picked up 2.5 sacks and made six total tackles (3.0 for loss).
This season, Matthews has averaged 6.6 total tackles per game and for the season has 13.5 sacks.
Gamescore: 28.70
Other Notable Players
- Kenneth Joshua Jr: 86 yards rushing (Gamescore: 26.78)
- Samuel Monroe: 96 yards rushing, 2 TDs (Gamescore: 25.20)
- Chandler Vaughn: 2 sacks and 11 total tackles (3.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 24.50)
- Ben Battle: 1 sack and 13 total tackles (2.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 23.75)
- Aden Preyear: 18 total tackles (Gamescore: 23.25)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
