The RS Offensive Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the RS Offensive Player of the Year is and who runs it

RS organizes this fan-voted award, which crowns one offensive standout from California prep football and is hosted on Crowdsignal's poll.fm site. The ballot for the program sits at https://poll.fm/16271224, and the poll question as printed reads "Who is the RS Offensive Player of the Year?". The award is deliberately narrow in scope: it honors offensive production in football, which puts quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs and offensive linemen in the nominee classes a ballot carries.

RS is the organizer named on the ballot itself. The program is statewide in reach: the nominee pool a ballot draws from comes from California schools, and the vote is open to the general public rather than to a panel of selectors or a media vote. That makes it a community award in the same family as the other California fan votes linked further down this page, though those run weekly during their sports' seasons while this one crowns a single offensive player for the year.

Because the ballot is hosted on Crowdsignal, the interface is the plain poll format that platform uses everywhere: a question, a list of options, a Vote button and a results view once a ballot has closed. The table below gathers the essentials in one place.

Confirmed editions and the 2026 closing date

This award has confirmed editions in 2022 and 2025. The 2025 ballot carried the heading "Who is the RS Offensive Player of the Year? (Poll Closed)" and displayed its final tally after voting ended: the leading nominee finished with 45 percent of the vote (1,260 votes), the runner-up took 34 percent (955 votes), and a third nominee held 4 percent (113 votes). November is the month the 2025 edition's window covered.

For the 2026 cycle, the organizer's published text sets a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Sept. 18, tied to Week 3 of the high school football season. That line is the only printed date attached to the current ballot. Neither the exact opening day nor the next edition's nominee roster has been posted by RS; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The shape of the published tally tells you what a finished ballot looks like: a percentage share and a raw count for each nominee, frozen at the deadline. A live ballot during the window shows the same figures moving as submissions arrive, which is how supporters and families track a race while it is still running.

How to cast a vote on poll.fm today

Voting happens on Crowdsignal at the address poll.fm/16271224. Open the ballot, where the question "Who is the RS Offensive Player of the Year?" appears, choose the option beside a nominee, and press Vote to submit. No fee and no paid tier appear anywhere in the flow RS publishes; the award runs on free public participation.

The organizer's own line on limits is explicit: "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often." That sentence does two jobs at once. It tells supporters they may return and submit repeatedly across the window, and it tells families and team communities that organizing repeat participation is within the printed rules of this specific ballot.

One practical caution: editions live as separate polls on poll.fm, so a closed edition keeps its page up with final results on it. If a page shows a Poll Closed heading, that edition has ended and a fresh ballot for the current cycle is the one that counts. Supporters following football week to week can pair this award with the California High School Football Player of the Week, which runs on the same public-vote pattern during the season.

Where this ballot sits among California's other fan votes

This ballot does not sit alone in California's fan-vote scene; it belongs to a set of programs for the same state. Its closest neighbour is the California High School Football Player of the Week, since both honor football and both run on public voting. Around it sit seasonal ballots for the state's other sports: the California High School Baseball Player of the Week, the California High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the California High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week and the California High School Softball Player of the Week.

Two things separate the Offensive Player of the Year from those weekly programs. First, cadence: a weekly ballot names a new honoree every seven days during its season, while this award crowns a single offensive winner for the year, so one race carries the whole season's attention. Second, focus: only offensive nominees appear, meaning a standout defender needs a different ballot entirely. A publisher-led option, the Fresno Bee Athlete of the Week, answers to a newspaper rather than to RS and covers a different corner of the state.

For a nominee's supporters, that makes this ballot the highest-stakes football vote of its family: fewer races, one window, and a results page that freezes the final share for everyone to see.

Strengthening support for a nominee in this poll

Support in this poll is built around repeat participation, because the organizer's own text invites it: "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often." A nominee's strongest asset is therefore a community that returns to poll.fm/16271224 across the whole window, not a single-day surge. Team group chats, family reminders, booster posts and end-of-week notes from a team's own social feeds all convert directly into ballots under rules RS has printed. The 11:59 p.m. Sept. 18 deadline is the moment every reminder should point to, since a vote that lands after it joins nothing. For a wider playbook that applies to public-vote awards like this one, see our guide on getting more votes online.