'24 VA RB Peyton Lewis (Tennessee)

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Lewis put on a show today (30 carries for 373 yards & 4 TDs) as Salem picked up a semifinal win over previously unbeaten Tuscarora, 31-21.

Peyton Lewis broke to his right, shook three Tuscarora defenders off him and, for the final time in Salem’s 31-21 win over the No. 9 Huskies in Saturday afternoon’s Virginia Class 4 football semifinal, moved into the open field with a horde of defenders stomach-down in his wake.

The senior running back had provided an unfamiliar sight in Leesburg. Throughout the fall, Tuscarora’s staff preached “relentless pursuit” until it was all the Huskies’ defense knew. Coach Jared Toler had his team adopt the mantra “band of brothers” until they became the parting words of each huddle. Those tenets delivered one of the most successful seasons in program history and, on Saturday, kept Salem largely contained.

But Lewis, a Tennessee commit and a 100-meter dash state champion, found an angle he liked. And though the Huskies caught him 15 yards short of his fifth touchdown run late in the fourth quarter, the 60-yard rush set up a game-sealing field goal and sent Salem to the Class 4 state final, in which it will play Phoebus, the reigning Class 3 champion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/12/02/tuscarora-football-class-5-semifinals/
 
Lewis put on a show today (30 carries for 373 yards & 4 TDs) as Salem picked up a semifinal win over previously unbeaten Tuscarora, 31-21.

Peyton Lewis broke to his right, shook three Tuscarora defenders off him and, for the final time in Salem’s 31-21 win over the No. 9 Huskies in Saturday afternoon’s Virginia Class 4 football semifinal, moved into the open field with a horde of defenders stomach-down in his wake.

The senior running back had provided an unfamiliar sight in Leesburg. Throughout the fall, Tuscarora’s staff preached “relentless pursuit” until it was all the Huskies’ defense knew. Coach Jared Toler had his team adopt the mantra “band of brothers” until they became the parting words of each huddle. Those tenets delivered one of the most successful seasons in program history and, on Saturday, kept Salem largely contained.

But Lewis, a Tennessee commit and a 100-meter dash state champion, found an angle he liked. And though the Huskies caught him 15 yards short of his fifth touchdown run late in the fourth quarter, the 60-yard rush set up a game-sealing field goal and sent Salem to the Class 4 state final, in which it will play Phoebus, the reigning Class 3 champion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/12/02/tuscarora-football-class-5-semifinals/
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Would be nice to have a downfield runner vet but might be something to sacrifice with the scholarship reduction
Sampson needs to be kept. He’s a home run threat. We’ve got some good looking guys already and adding this kid. Unless it’s some insane no brainer I hope we focus on the guys blocking for him and Nico.
 

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