What’s Next for Frederica Academy Football?

Since going 10-3 winning the GISA 3A state championship back in 2018, Frederica Academy football saw one season of drop off in the following season.

But the Knights would rise again in the 2020 season, seeing victories regularly before dropping the state championship 49-0 to John Milledge Academy.

Heading into the 2019 season, they lost a trio of offensive weapons to graduation.

Wide receiver Jashawn Sheffield and Jaylin Simpson both took their talents to Auburn to play football when they graduated in the spring of 2019.

Sheffield is now at Middle Tennessee State University.

Along with those two, 1500 rushing yard running back Isaiah Jackson signed to play at Kentucky State University.

On the defensive end, outside linebacker Harry Veal, who had 129 tackles and nine sacks in 2018, also went to Auburn with his teammates from the other side of the ball.

Veal’s defensive running mate defensive end Camron Gardner also graduated out of the program and turned in his football cleats for baseball spikes as he signed to play at Lagrange College.

That’s a lot of talent leaving out at one time.

In 2019, they had a freshman quarterback in Tyler Devlin and went 4-6 on the season before the young play caller transferred to Glynn Academy.

Talented players such as running back Denver Anthony and linebacker Deke Jernigan graduated as the back went to play at Division II’s Gardner-Webb University and the sure tackler chose baseball over football for college, inking with Tallahassee Community College.

That was only year they needed to regroup, though.

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