The Player of the Week Fan Vote notched 33,241 votes, with Habersham Central’s Patrick Tedder (16,120) taking the top spot. BLITZ then picked both Gunner Stockton (Rabun) and Zach Holtzclaw (Dawson) as Co-POW. For what it’s worth, Dawson’s Dakohta Sonnichsen (12,177) piled up some votes as well, but came in second.

PATRICK TEDDER – FAN VOTE

Patrick Tedder was a ball hawk in a crucial Raiders win in Week 6 over Winder-Barrow. The safety tallied 19 tackles, and recovered a fumble as well as broke up a pass. He also recorded a pair of receptions, and returned a kickoff and two punts. Also working as the kicker, he had two kickoffs for 74 yards, and made good on one PAT. This is the senior’s first POW award.

For the season, Tedder has 109 receiving yards and a TD, two interceptions (14 yds return), 32 kick/punt return yards, has made 12-of-15 PATs, has 19 kickoffs for 733 yards, and 50 tackles (1.5 for loss), 4 pass deflections, two break-ups, and one recovered fumble.

GUNNER STOCKTON – BLITZ PICK

Make it 3 times as Player of the Week this season, and 13 for his career. The South Carolina-bound junior QB put up one of his best stat lines yet in a 70-36 win over East Jackson in which he only played a few minutes into the third. Gunner Stockton led Rabun County with a career-high 8 total touchdowns. He threw for 6 (the 4th time in his career), and rushed for 2. He tallied 422 passing yards (first career 400-yard game) and 55 on the ground for a grand total of 477 yards.

His line now looks like this:
2020: 1,141 pass yds, 15 TD, 1 INT, 66% passing // 489 rush yds, 10 TD, 6.5 YPC (25 total TD)
CAREER: 7,531 pass yds, 92 TD, 13 INT, 69% passing // 2,324 rush yds, 46 TD, 6.5 YPC (138 total TD)
He has 9,855 total yards in his career, just one game away from 10K

ZACH HOLTZCLAW – BLITZ PICK

Dawson junior QB Zach Holtzclaw threw for a career-best 6 TD in a critical region-opening win over #5-ranked White County. The Tigers’ gunslinger tallied 342 passing yards and completed 60% of his passes (21-for-35). Holtzclaw was unfazed by a constant downpour during the contest. In a game in which nearly every team would resort to the run game, Holtzclaw didn’t let the rain become an excuse. His 77-yd TD pass to Jaden Gibson in the final minutes proved the game-winner in a 42-35 win.

This is Holtzclaw’s second POW award of his career. To date, he has 3,699 passing yards and 40 TD in his career. This season, he has passed for 1,327 to go with 17 TD against 4 interceptions.

Feature Photo by Chaz Mullis