PRZ KY Offensive Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and who runs the PRZ KY Offensive Player of the Year

This award turns Kentucky high school football fans into the selection committee. PRZ KY, the organizer behind the program, opens a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm each cycle and lets readers decide which offensive player takes the honor. The 2025 edition is live now, and its finalist list reads like a map of the state's football footprint: nominees are tied to South Laurel, Paducah Tilghman, North Oldham, Danville, Prestonsburg and Beechwood, among others, covering quarterbacks, running backs and receivers.

The audience is the community each nominee brings with them. Because the winner is decided by public participation rather than a panel, the outcome is shaped by how effectively a school's fans, families and local followers turn out on the ballot. That is the whole design of a poll.fm contest: the finalist list sets the field, and community support settles the result.

Facts about the program

For readers comparing statewide fan awards, this ballot sits in the same space as the Courier Journal Athlete of the Week, though the two differ in scope, cadence and publisher, which later sections break down.

The dated record: editions, the 2025 window and what is not published

Two editions of the PRZ KY Offensive Player of the Year are confirmed: 2022 and 2025. That spread is why the program qualifies as annual rather than a one-off, and it makes the 2025 ballot the edition to watch for patterns a future cycle might repeat.

The 2025 window is the page's anchor fact. The ballot went live in October, and the organizer's own wording is unambiguous: voting will remain open until Black Friday, November 28th, and the winner will be announced on X. Those are the only closing details PRZ KY publishes. No opening day, no nomination round dates and no announcement time appear alongside them, and nothing on the ballot sets out how the finalist field was assembled.

PRZ KY has also not printed a category roster or any per-supporter vote limit on the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That gap matters for anyone planning outreach, because the rules that govern repeat submissions and how often one person may cast a choice are exactly the rules the poll page does not spell out.

The practical takeaway is simple. Treat October as the season the ballot appears, treat Black Friday, November 28th as the 2025 deadline, and take anything the organizer left unstated from the poll page at poll.fm rather than from a guess. A shorter-cycle comparison is the Courier Journal Louisville Boys Athlete of the Week, which recurs weekly instead of yearly.

How a supporter votes on the 2025 ballot today

The mechanic is the simplest fan-vote format there is. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm/16217780, reviews the finalist list, marks the answer beside the offensive player they want to recognize, and submits. No account creation and no payment step appear on the ballot. Crowdsignal counts the choice and the supporter is done.

The finalist list on the 2025 ballot names each player with a graduation class, a position and a school, so a fan from Danville, Prestonsburg or any of the other communities represented can find their nominee at a glance. Because the ballot displays running totals in this format, supporters can also see how the race stands before they commit their choice.

What the ballot does not display is a rule set. Whether the same person may come back the following day and submit again, whether a shared network or school device counts votes differently, and whether the organizer removes irregular submissions are questions the page itself does not answer. PRZ KY's announcement post is the better source for organizer-side rules, and the live poll page is the source for anything platform-side.

One organizer detail is firm: the winner is announced on X after voting closes on Black Friday, November 28th. A supporter who votes should follow through to that announcement, since the poll page will not carry the result on its own.

How this ballot sits beside Kentucky's other fan votes

Kentucky high school sports support a busy fan-vote scene, and the PRZ KY Offensive Player of the Year has a distinct lane in it. The Courier Journal family runs weekly recognition through the Louisville boys ballot and the Louisville girls ballot, plus a statewide Athlete of the Week. Those refresh every week across all sports; PRZ KY's award concentrates on offensive football and crowns a single annual winner.

The Cincinnati Enquirer brings its own weekly recognition to the northern corner of the state through its NKY Athlete of the Week, which splits the state geographically in a way PRZ KY's ballot does not. And for players whose seasons peak in other sports, the Kentucky High School Baseball Player of the Year and the boys basketball equivalent cover the spring and winter calendars.

What makes the PRZ KY ballot different is its publisher and its platform. It is a football-first outlet running its own award on Crowdsignal, with a season-long buildup that lands on Black Friday. For a nominee's supporters, that means a long runway to rally a community, and a single decisive deadline rather than a weekly reset. The 2022 and 2025 editions confirm the pattern; the 2026 cycle will show whether it holds.