LHSAA Playoff Brackets: Top Storylines, Prospects | Division-IV 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-IV Non-Select capsule below.
Top 5 seeds: No. 1 Logansport, No. 2 Kentwood, No. 3 Oak Grove, No. 4 Haynesville, No. 5 Jeanerette
Lower seeds to watch: No. 8 Welsh, No. 9 White Castle
2022 champion: Oak Grove
2022 runner-up: Homer
Top prospects: 2024 Ole Miss DB/ATH Katrevrick Banks Katrevrick Banks 6'3" | 185 lbs | DB Homer | 2024 State LA , 2025 Oak Grove QB Jackson Bradley Jackson Bradley 6'3" | 200 lbs | QB Oak Grove | 2025 State LA , 2024 Jeanerette TE Traville Frederick Jr. Traville Frederick Jr. 6'3" | 240 lbs | TE Jeanerette | 2024 State LA , 2024 Oak Grove LB James Harris James Harris 6'2" | 225 lbs | LB Oak Grove | 2024 State LA , 2024 Haynesville LB Alonzo Jackson Jr. Alonzo Jackson Jr. 6'1" | 210 lbs | LB Haynesville | 2024 State LA , 2024 Franklin DB/ATH Jay’Shaun Johnson Jay’Shaun Johnson 5'11" | 165 lbs | ATH Franklin | 2024 State LA , 2025 Oak Grove TE J.T. Layton J.T. Layton 6'3" | 200 lbs | TE Oak Grove | 2025 State LA , 2024 West St. John DB Kylin Smith Kylin Smith 5'9" | 150 lbs | DB West St. John | 2024 State LA
Sleeper prospects: 2025 White Castle QB/ATH Shadrack Allen Shadrack Allen 5'9" | 150 lbs | ATH White Castle | 2025 State LA , 2024 Centerville DE/TE Jamari Arrow, 2025 Kentwood WR Jermaine Brown Jermaine Brown 5'9" | 170 lbs | DB Kentwood | 2025 LA Jr., 2025 Kentwood DL/LB La’Mikal Callahan, 2025 Jeanerette DB/ATH Dominick Lewis Dominick Lewis 6'2" | 175 lbs | ATH Jeanerette | 2025 State LA
Intriguing first-round matchup: No. 13 Arcadia vs. No. 20 General Trass
Most intriguing possible second-round matchup: No. 8 Welsh vs. No. 9 White Castle
Overall Storyline: Four blue-bloods of Louisiana’s rural small schools earned the bracket’s four byes. Haynesville’s 17 state championships lead a combined 35 with Kentwood (9), Oak Grove (7) and Logansport (2). One of those schools has won a title eight of the past 10 years, including Oak Grove three of the past four years. The bracket features other talented teams such as ascending Jeanerette, 2021 champion Homer, 2017 champion Welsh and 2010 champion White Castle. But cracking that lead quartet would mark a notable upset.