LHSAA Playoff Brackets: Storylines, Prospects | D-II Non-Select
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Louisiana’s high school football playoffs kick off this weekend. The LHSAA’s second postseason under a tweaked format features eight brackets — four “nonselect” and four “select” — full of impressive teams and prospects and intriguing matchups and storylines. We’ll give a…
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Continue ReadingLouisiana’s high school football playoffs kick off this weekend.
The LHSAA’s second postseason under a tweaked format features eight brackets — four “nonselect” and four “select” — full of impressive teams and prospects and intriguing matchups and storylines.
We’ll give a quick preview of each, including the top five seeds, two lower seeds to watch for a potential run, up to eight top-ranked prospects, up to five sleeper prospects, an intriguing first-round matchup, a most intriguing potential second-round matchup and an overarching storyline entering the tournament.
Check out the Division-II Non-Select capsule below.
Top 5 seeds: No. 1 North DeSoto, No. 2 Cecilia, No. 3 Assumption, No. 4 Lutcher, No. 5 West Feliciana
Lower seeds to watch: No. 10 Jennings, No. 12 Opelousas
2022 champion: Lutcher
2022 runner-up: North DeSoto
Top prospects: 2025 Opelousas LB Corey Amos Corey Amos 6'3" | 205 lbs | LB Opelousas | 2025 State LA , 2026 North DeSoto QB Luke Delafield Luke Delafield 6'2" | 190 lbs | QB North DeSoto | 2026 State LA , 2025 Opelousas RB D’Shaun Ford D’Shaun Ford 5'11" | 210 lbs | RB Opelousas | 2025 State LA , 2024 West Feliciana QB/ATH Joel Rogers Joel Rogers 6'0" | 190 lbs | ATH West Feliciana | 2024 State LA , 2025 Cecilia QB/ATH Diesel Solari Diesel Solari 5'7" | 175 lbs | ATH Cecilia | 2025 State LA , 2025 Lutcher DL/OL Reshad Sterling Reshad Sterling 6'3" | 235 lbs | DL Lutcher | 2025 State LA , 2024 Franklin Parish DB/WR Javion White Javion White 5'11" | 180 lbs | ATH Franklin Parish | 2024 State LA , 2024 Wossman DL Jayden Williams Jayden Williams 6'2" | 295 lbs | DL Wossman | 2024 State LA .
Sleeper prospects: 2024 Lakeshore DL Kaiden Broussard, 2024 Iowa QB/ATH Josiah Bushnell Josiah Bushnell 5'11" | 175 lbs | ATH Iowa | 2024 State LA , 2024 West Feliciana DL Ted Jackson Ted Jackson 5'11" | 240 lbs | DL West Feliciana | 2024 State LA , 2024 Assumption RB Chase Jacobs Chase Jacobs 5'9" | 215 lbs | RB Assumption | 2024 State LA , 2024 Abbeville DL Tezarron Stewart Tezarron Stewart 6'3" | 240 lbs | DL Abbeville | 2024 State LA
Intriguing first-round matchup: No. 15 Iota vs. No. 18 Church Point
Most intriguing possible second-round matchup: No. 5 West Feliciana vs. No. 12 Opelousas
Overall Storyline: North DeSoto surprised much of the state with its first-ever run to a state championship game in 2022 and returns to the postseason this year at the No. 1 seed and anticipated favorite. But the field is full of other challengers with deep experience from last season such as defending champion Lutcher and semifinalists West Feliciana and Iowa, plus highly ranked, talented and well-coached Cinderella stories in their own right — including Cecilia, Assumption, Wossman, Franklin Parish, Opelousas, et al. — who have been confident in their own title potential all calendar year-long. Can the Griffins complete their mission this year? Can the reloaded Bulldogs put together a run to go back-to-back? Will the Saints or Yellow Jackets be the ones who manage to address unfinished business? Or will one of the other hungry teams in the field make a bigger jump?