Final regular-season NIC-10 football stats: A near-record number of 500-yard receivers
Auburn's Leonard Spates and Freeport's Zac Matz passed the 500-yard receiving threshold Friday. If Hononegah's Cole Schmall (440 yards) and/or Boylan's Santana English (427) can get there with their seasons extending into the playoffs, it will tie for the second-most players in NIC-10 history to have 500 yards receiving in the same season.
The huge outlier was 2019, when seven players did it, including three from Harlem and two from Boylan. The next-most is four, done in 1990, 2001 and 2002. So this year has a good chance to at least tie for second-most in league history. And the top two receivers will go head-to-head this week when Auburn plays at Hononegah in the first round of the playoffs.
Here are our updated large-school football stats, for all NIC-10 teams plus Rochelle. Stats for Belvidere are only through Week 8, but will be updated as soon as the team reports their stats from Friday's regular-season finale:
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RUSHING
Player (School), Att-Yds, TD
Javius Catlin (East), 200-1,330, 17 TDs
Jahmani Muhammad (Har), 186-1,192, 12 TD
Grant Gensler (Roch), 119-1,013, 12 TD
Trent Dinsmore (BN), 135-804, 8 TD
Dylan Manning (Roch), 79-609, 9 TD
Patrick Dubose Jr (Aub), 102-601, 12 TD
AJ Moore (Aub), 88-583, 7 TD
Lashawn Gathright (Jeff), 120-546, 3
Roman Villoalobos (Roch), 104-542, 6 TD
Austin Alonso (Boy), 57-517, 12 TD
Nico Bertolino (BN), 64-511, 8 TD
Greyson Motter (Hono), 89-487, 10 TD
Izaias Primus (Guil), 98-389, 2 TD
Donavan Hanserd (Boy), 83-362, 8 TD
Greyson Motter (Hono), 65-340, 9 TD
Luke Poppe (Hono), 49-321, 7 TD
Lee Smith (East), 57-315, 3 TD
Juan Cervantes (Belv), 89-314, 1 TD
Brayden Luellen (Jeff), 66-313, 2 TD
Nate Johnson (Har), 80-309, 5 TD
Erick Roman (BN), 39-306, 2 TD
Estin Fichter (Hono), 61-304, 4 TD
Cam Verner (Free), 72-277, 1 TD
Denarius Jackson (Free), 46-217, 3 TD
Chris Porter (Guil), 38-200
Xavier Lindhe (Guil), 50-200
PASSING
Player (School), Comp-Att-Yds
Cole Warren (Hono), 95-152-1,508, 20 TD, 2 Int
Payton Woker (Free), 106-245, 1,476, 17 TD, 18 int
Connor Dennis (Boy), 107-185-1,448, 13 TD, 4 Int
Anthony Purifoy (Aub), 63-110-970, 9 TD, 4 Int
Grayson Weber (Guil), 38-78-637, 7 TD, 4 Int
Carson Lewis (Roch), 33-57-558, 7 TD, 5 Int
Gunnar Vuorenmaa (Belv), 59-135, 536, 4 TD, 7 Int
Derek Anderson (Har), 42-74-402, 4 TD, 2 Int
Max Gyllenswan (BN), 25-41-398, 10 TD, 2 Int
Dontae Love (Jeff), 37-80–380, 4 TD, 5 Int
Xavier Lindhe (Guil), 31-64-314, 6 TD, 2 Int
Nate Johnson (Har), 13-44-136, 1 TD, 2 Int
Twaine Phillips, 5-28-114, 1 TD, 0 Int
Chandler Jack (Har), 4-12-88, 0 TD, 1 Int
RECEIVING
Player (School), Rec-Yds
Isaiah Houi (Hono), 33-561, 8 TD
Leonard Spates (Aub), 24-528, 5 TD
Zac Matz (Free), 37-515, 7 TD
Cole Schmall (Hono), 24-440, 5 TD
Santana English (Boy), 27-427, 4 TD
LaDamian Hoffman (Guil), 22-408, 6 TD
Dedric Macon (Free), 23-363, 7 TD
Mason Caltagerone (Boy), 26-356, 3 TD
Joseph Melcher (Hono), 14-265, 4 TD
Jaelin Campbell (Free), 13-255, 1 TD
Drake Ferguson (Har), 24-247, 2 TD
Jason Dean, (Belv), 25-242
Jaidyn Nguyen (Guil), 14-236, 2 TD
Phillip Dixon (Boy), 15-224, 2 TD
Randy Johnson (Jeff), 21-220, 3 TD
Nico Bertolino (BN), 13-214, 5 TD
Rasheed Johnson (Boy), 9-205, 2 TD
Terry Horton (Aub), 17-196, 1 TD
Matt Laslowski (Belv), 14-168, 1 TD
Contact: mtrowbridge@rrstar.com, @matttrowbridge or 815-987-1383. Matt Trowbridge has covered sports for the Rockford Register Star for over 30 years, after previous stints in North Dakota, Delaware, Vermont and Iowa City.
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