Cherokee County’s Jacob Cornejo and Marion County’s Cade Atkins came out on top in the first round of interactive fan voting for CM Gridiron’s first annual Offensive Player of the Year Award. Candidates were comprised of CMG’s Player of the Week winners from 2022.
Cornejo took the top spot securing 6,643 votes (42.0%) followed closely by Atkins who claimed 6,209 votes (39.26%).
Rounding out the Round 1, Group A field were:
Cody Satterfield | Geraldine Bulldogs | Playoff Round 1 Winner (2,463 votes | 15.57%)
Trey Cook | Susan Moore Bulldogs | Week 3 Winner (290 votes | 1.83%)
Layne Grantham | Straughn Tigers | Week 10 Winner (142 votes | 0.90%)
Nic Strong | Randolph Raiders | Week 1 Winner (46 votes | 0.29%)
Yamorion Jones | Francis Marion Rams | Week 7 Winner (22 votes | 0.14%)
Cornejo and Akins advance to take on the top two vote getters from Round 1, Group B which will kick off Sunday at 7:00 PM.
Congratulations to the all of the Alabama high school football standouts who were nominated to participate in this year’s CM Gridiron interactive fan polls!
Gage Patterson
March 6, 2023 at 12:04 pm
Jacob is better that all yall
Donald Cochran
March 11, 2023 at 10:37 pm
Jacob is the man I know we will see him playing on Saturday’s in a few years.