Community Film Room, Episode 43
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Our Winter rankings update pinpointed even more players from the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes who have stood out in their respective positions. For a variety of reasons, our team decided that each of those new additions were worthy of…
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Continue ReadingOur Winter rankings update pinpointed even more players from the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes who have stood out in their respective positions. For a variety of reasons, our team decided that each of those new additions were worthy of a coveted spot in our rankings.
But we’d be naive to think we’ve evaluated everyone or didn’t miss a few along the way.
PRZ South Carolina is constantly looking at as many of the 10,000-plus prep football players in the SCHSL and SCISA ranks as possible.
Now, the Community Film Room is back.
In each edition, we’ll break down five unranked players from across the state to let you see what we’re seeing. The series will lead right into the the start of the spring rankings cycle, the ever-growing importance of the summer schedule and then the 2024 season.
In the first edition of this offseason, we’re highlighting a dangerous tight end capable of putting up big numbers, a corner with plenty of college attention, a quarterback who threw for 2,500 yards last season, an effective safety who might might the switch to linebacker and a big offensive lineman who helped a team start turning things around.
Keshon Washington Keshon Washington 5'10" | 205 lbs | TE Summerville | 2025 State SC
Keshon Washington Keshon Washington 5'10" | 205 lbs | TE Summerville | 2025 State SC
This isn’t the first time we’ve mentioned Washington, and it certainly won’t be the last. While he was among a number of non-seniors who were playing in the shadows of several stars last season, he found a way to more than contribute. He’s built like a tailback but has the hands and wheels of a receiver. Case in point, he was clocked at 22.55 miles per hour during the Joanne Langfitt Challenge.
There’s absolutely no reason Washington doesn’t become more of a focal point heading into spring ball and then the 2024 season. After all, he already put up 31 receptions for 384 yards and five touchdowns as a junior.
Zion Britt
Zion Britt
The Stags clearly have no issue whatsoever putting younger players in big spots. But freshman quarterback
Henry Rivers
Henry
Rivers
5’11” | 160 lbs | QB
Berkeley | 2027
State
SC
wasn’t the only one doing that last fall. Britt not only started at left tackle, he played extremely well. Already north of 270 pounds and with plenty of time to continue growing, Britt was responsible for protecting Rivers’ blind side and was ultimately named a first-team all-region selection for his efforts.
Britt appears equally adept in both the run and pass games, and in both situations he put plenty of opposing defensive linemen on the ground. He’s one of the big (no pun intended) reasons the Stags should start competing for region titles again soon.
When Konanbanny transferred to Heathwood Hall from Rabun Gap-Nacoochee in Georgia, the Highlanders earned a player who was about to hit what can only be described as a frenetic recruiting cycle. His offer sheet is a mile long and stretches across schools in each of the major conferences. He shaved it down to a top 10 on New Year’s Day and kept things progressing with on campus visits over the last six weeks or so.
How did all that come to pass? For starters, 6-foot-2 corners who run like he Konanbanny do don’t exactly come around very often. The rising senior is a dangerous when he’s playing press man or hanging a few yards off the line. Heathwood Hall’s opponents know this, too. Otherwise his numbers look even better.
Some losses to some of the state’s power brokers early in the 2023 season probably kept Morris off the radar for a little longer than he’d hoped, but finishing the season on a tear eliminated that. He averaged a tick over 300 yards per game over the team’s last four contests and finished the season with 2,571 yards and 27 touchdowns while completing 65 percent of his passes.
Morris was able to put up some of those big numbers because while he’s only 5-foot-10, he moves extremely well in the pocket and throws extremely well on the run. He doesn’t have a monster arm, necessarily, but he’s able to squeeze the ball into tight spaces.
Meetze is a machine who put up 123 total tackles, 11 tackles for loss, five pass break-ups, four interceptions, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery – all while grading out north of 80 percent on the season. He’s an excellent form tackler in both one-on-one situations and in congestion alike.
In all reality, he’s a candidate to move up to linebacker at some point during his career. But for now, he’s lightning in a bottle as a safety. Either way, he’s going to put up huge tackle numbers before it’s all said and done.