Braden Davis named Gatorade Delaware Football Player of the Year
South Carolina quarterback commit Braden Davis and his Middletown (Del.) team is set to play for a state title this week, but Davis has already added some impressive hardware to the trophy case.
Davis is the 2021-22 Gatorade Delaware Football Player of the Year, Gatorade announced Tuesday morning in a release, and is a finalist for the Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award to be announced in December.
Davis, who is set to sign with the Gamecocks next Wednesday during the early signing period, had completed 114 of 156 passes for 1,872 yards and 20 touchdowns through nine games, with just three interceptions. He also rushed for 638 yards and three scores on 46 carries.
Those numbers, provided in the release, were tallied before last week's semifinal matchup in which Davis completed 17-of-26 pass attempts for 164 yards and two touchdowns in a 33-15 win.
The 6-foot-6, 195-pound Davis committed to the Gamecocks in late April, taking his official visit to the school this summer.
Davis, who maintained a weighted 4.17 GPA in the classroom, will enroll at South Carolina in January.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport.
The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.
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