2025 All-Gridiron Team: All-Opponent Team

The 2025 high school football season will conclude this weekend for our day-to-day coverage area and safe to say it's been a successful one.

From the hot and sunny media days of late July to the blistering cold of December, Tri-State Sports Page has been along for the ride with each of our 10 area schools.

And while we focus our efforts on our day-to-day coverage area of teams, we were also able to recognize other players at schools across the area who play at a higher level than most.

This is why we've came up with the All-Opponent team as a way to tip our hat to teams outside our coverage area and give them some deserved recognition.

The only criteria we have for this selection process is that they faced one of our day-to-day coverage area teams in the regular season. These teams include Chesapeake, Coal Grove, Fairland, Green, Ironton, Rock Hill, Russell, South Point, Symmes Valley and Wheelersburg.

Lastly, this list was just as hard to compile as our day-to-day teams. The biggest challenge we faced had less to do with finding names or going back to research, but had more to do with whittling a list down to the best-of-the-best.

All-Opponent Offensive Team:

Luke Cassidy | Portsmouth Notre Dame | Quarterback | Senior

Eric Manley Jr. | Eastern Pike | Quarterback | Senior

Anthony Bishop | Portsmouth West | Running Back | Junior

Fernando Poxes | Portsmouth | Running Back | Junior

Eli Thomas | Breathitt County | Running Back | Sophomore

Landon Yoak | East Carter | Running Back | Senior

Kasey Gammon | Greenup County | Wide Receiver | Senior

Kaleb Kelly | Boyd County | Wide Receiver | Senior

Boston Webb | Eastern Pike | Wide Receiver | Junior

Jacob Allen | Jackson | Offensive Line | Senior

Ethan Huffman | East Carter | Offensive Line | Senior

Brady Marushi | Ashland | Offensive Line | Senior

Will Odenthal | Nelsonville-York | Offensive Line | Senior

Baker Sutton | Ashland | Offensive Line | Senior

Brewer Tomlison | Eastern Pike | Offensive Line | Senior

Max Canaday | Gallia Academy | All-Purpose | Junior

Hunter Wright | South Gallia | All-Purpose | Senior

Layne Wright | South Gallia | All-Purpose | Senior

Ryan Siemetz | Jackson | All-Purpose | Senior

Jaylen Bender | Lucasville Valley | Punter | Senior

All-Opponent Offensive Team:

Waylon Abner | Breathitt County | Defensive Line | Senior

Zach Berry | Fairfield Union | Defensive Line | xxx

Josh Charron | Achbishop McNicholas | Defensive Line | Senior

Anton Haas | Gallia Academy | Defensive Line | Sophomore

Cade Leist | Eastern Pike | Defensive Line | Junior

Caeleb Layton | Nelsonville-York | Defensive Line | Senior

Brayden Barnett | Breathitt County | Linebacker | Senior

Trevon Brooks | Portsmouth | Linebacker | Senior

Dakota Cunningham| Nelsonville-York | Linebacker | Senior

Jaxon Law | Greenup County | Linebacker | Senior

Brody Simpkins | Ashland | Linebacker | Junior

Charlie Woodward | Jackson | Linebacker | Senior

Dean Clark | Fairfield Union | Defensive Back | Junior

Cameron Davis | Ashland | Defensive Back | Senior

Dayton Kallner | Jackson | Defensive Back | Junior

Keshawn Newman | Ashland | Defensive Back | Senior

Terron Vaughn | Purcell Marian | Defensive Back | Senior

Sam Whitcomb | Archbishop McNicholas | Defensive Back | Junior

Jacob Roth | Portsmouth | Punter | Senior