In Essex County, the West Orange football program is having quite the resurgence over the last couple years, from from the high school level down to the youth program. On the youth level, West Orange’s Jacoby Warsager Jacoby Warsager 5'7" | 140 lbs | WR West Orange (Youth Program) | 2029 NJ had a tremendous year. Warsager established himself as one of the top Wide Receivers in all of the New Jersey Suburban Youth Football League (NJSYFL) and was selected to the NJSYFL All-Star Game. Matched up against many of the other top players from the competitive league, Warsager went off and stuffed the stat sheet with over 100 yards receiving in just the first half of the All-Star game.

It was pretty evident early on in the game that Warsager would be a significant factor in the North Team’s offensive attack. By evident early on, I mean he caught two passes on the opening drive for 42 yards, including the NJSYFL 8th Grade All-Star Game’s first scoring play of the night. Both grabs were not easy to make, as he tiptoed the sideline on both of them and appeared to have limited vision because of defenders. Warsager’s night was just begining there. Just four plays into the second quarter, Englekraut and Warsager connected again for a nine-yard touchdown scoring strike that saw Warsager use every centimeter of his 5-foot-6 frame to reach the ball across the goal line while being brought down. With time slipping away late in the second quarter, Warsager turned into a warrior and leveled up yet again with back-to-back catches. On the first of the consecutive grabs, he made what I feel was his most impressive play of the game, as he took a simple nine-yard curl and turned it into a 29 yard catch and run, picking up nearly 20 yards after contact. The very next play, he reached the 100 yard receiving benchmark in the first half on a simple out route, that he turned into a 20 yard gain. While the West Orange prospect wasn’t the tallest kid on the field, he certainly put me and a lot of other people on notice.