The Stat Sheet Stuffers Club

From Brock-toberfest to the Wright stuff, BPR salutes the 2015 statistical winners

Alcoa senior QuayVaughn Lewis-McCollum enjoys the final seconds of the Christian Academy of Knoxville game. The Tornado defense is a charter member of the Blount Press Row Stat Sheet Stuffers Club after Alcoa finished the regular season as the state’s second-best scoring defense at 8.1 points per game. Photo by Wallace Bowden

Editor’s note: The statistics referenced in the following story include only those from the 10 game regular season.

By Stefan Cooper
Editor
Blount Press Row

We’d need a waiver on the age requirement, but Kelby Brock would be a great guy to run for president.

Bet Donald Trump never averaged 26 yards per catch in high school.

The Maryville senior Brock and Heritage junior Colton Wright were runaway winners in their respective statistical categories as inaugural members of the Blount Press Row Stat Sheet Stuffers Club.

Also part of the inaugural class are Alcoa place-kicker Ben Smith; Maryville quarterback Dylan Hopkins; William Blount linebacker Tommy Myers; the Tornado defense; the Rebel offense; Tornado defensive lineman Jonathan Decker; Maryville defensive back Josh Yoakum; Rebel punter Luke Orren.

Brock’s stuff was crazy. The Rebel wide out seldom saw less than double coverage and averaged only 4.1 catches per game. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Brock responded with 41 catches for 1,052 yards and 10 touchdowns, averaging 25.7 yards per reception.

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After Maryville’s 35-7 win over Warren County in Thursday’s Class 6A playoff opener, Brock needs three catches and a single receiving touchdown to own just about every Rebel record for receiving on the books. The records for career and single-game receiving yards are already his.

Brock broke former Rebel and current Alcoa offensive coordinator David Sweetland’s single-game mark of 175 yards twice this season with a pair of 185-yard efforts against Jefferson County and Hardin Valley.

“I just go out there and work extra hard,” Brock said. “I take pride in my route running. I know I’ve got to get open.”

Wright torched South-Doyle for better than 200 yards and a school-record five rushing touchdowns in a 57-56, Heritage overtime win. Prior to the outburst, Wright had less than 200 yards rushing through the Mountaineers first two games.

Two weeks later, he all but matched the effort, running for four touchdowns and recovering his own fumble in the end zone for a fifth for a second school record for total touchdowns in a game. Then he really cranked it up.

In the regular season finale against Halls, Wright went past former Mountaineer Darren Sharp’s record of 1,500 yards rushing in a season. The 6-foot, 188-pound Wright finished with 1,563 yards through 10 games, averaging an impressive 7.1 yards per carry.

Region wins over South-Doyle, Gibbs and Powell qualified the Mountaineers for the Class 5A playoffs. Heritage fell in the opener last week at Morristown West, but not before Wright bid farewell to a breakout season with his 27th rushing touchdown, his fourth Mountaineer record of the 2015 campaign.

The 2015 Blount Press Row Stat Sheet Stuffers Club

The Quarterbacks

Player	School	Rank	Comp	Att	Int	TD	Yds	QBR
Dylan Hopkins	Maryville	1	70	102	0	9	1182	195.09
Jaylen Myers	Alcoa	2	53	93	0	11	783	166.74
Austin Myrick	Wm. Blount	3	91	161	4	11	1143	133.73
Dustin Richardson	Heritage	4	129	253	15	11	1391	99.66

The Running Game

Player	School	Rank	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
Colton Wright	Heritage	1	219	1563	7.1	26
Dylan Hopkins	Maryville	2	48	480	10.0	7
Dustin Richardson	Heritage	3	64	464	7.3	7
Joel Hopkins	Maryville	4	68	456	6.7	10
Jordan Ervin	Maryville	5	53	445	8.4	6

Receiving Options

Player	School	Rank	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD
Kelby Brock	Maryville	1	41	1052	25.7	10
Isaiah Hannah	Wm. Blount	2	51	778	15.3	11
J.P. Pearson	Heritage	3	47	365	7.8	2
Tykee Kellogg	Alcoa	4	17	348	20.5	6
Brian Tillery	Maryville	5	23	331	14.4	1

The Kickers

Player	School	Rank	FG	Long	PAT	Scoring
Ben Smith	Alcoa	1	6-8	40	50-50	68
Matthew Cone	Maryville	2	3-4	45	48-49	57

Total Offense

Team	Rank	Rush (Att-Yds)	Pass (Cmp-Att-Int-TD-Yds)	Total Offense	PPG
Maryville	1	341-2402	106-160-2-16-1959	4361	41.8
Heritage	2	351-2461	137-270-15-13-1475	3936	33.4
Alcoa	3	337-2441	66-120-0-13-1050	3491	39.4
Wm. Blount	4	307-1372	107-184-5-14-1401	2773	13.6

The Defenses

Team	Rank	PPG
Alcoa	1	8.1
Maryville	2	9.9
Wm. Blount	3	21.4
Heritage	4	43.3

Tackles

Player	School	Rank	Solo	Asst	Total	TFL	Sacks
Tommy Myers	Wm. Blount	1	60	29	89	11	2
Garrett Livesay	Alcoa	2	45	43	88	6	8
Jonathan Johnson	Heritage	3	51	31	82	4
T.D. Blackmon	Maryville	4	47	28	75	10	2
Jack Warwick	Alcoa	5	22	43	65	3	1

The DLs

Player	School	Rank	Solo	Asst	Total	TFL	Sacks
Jonathan Decker	Alcoa	1	22	33	55	10	7
Matt Young	Maryville	2	29	23	52	4	6
Cameron Omstead	Heritage	3	16	29	45
Riley Jones	Heritage	4	24	17	41
Ryan Clark	Alcoa	4	11	30	41	7	1

The DBs

Player	School	Rank	Solo	Asst	Total	TFL	Int
Josh Yoakum	Maryville	1	35	21	56		2-16
Dustin Clabough	Alcoa	2	26	26	52	1	4
Tyler Thomas	Heritage	3	26	15	41		1
Caleb Woody	Alcoa	4	22	15	37	1
Drake Martin	Maryville	5	29	7	36	7	3-18

The Punters

Player	School	Rank	Att	Yds	Avg
Luke Orren	Maryville	1	23	889	38.6
Jackson Richards	Alcoa	2	12	393	32.8