The Daily Advertiser Preseason Offensive Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What The Daily Advertiser's Preseason Offensive Player of the Year is, and who runs it

The Daily Advertiser puts a Preseason Offensive Player of the Year to a public vote among its Louisiana football readers each year, timed to land before the season itself rather than during it. The paper runs the ballot on Crowdsignal, the polling platform published at poll.fm, rather than building a vote form on its own site. Two editions are confirmed so far: one in 2023, and the most recent one in 2025, which placed in August before closing.

Nothing on the confirmed page ties the ballot to one particular parish or school inside Louisiana. The Daily Advertiser frames it as a readership-wide vote rather than a single-district contest, and nothing published says otherwise.

The dated history: two preseason editions, and one rule the paper actually printed

2023 and 2025 are the only two editions Crowdsignal's own listing confirms for this ballot. That is not the same as saying it skipped 2024; it means only those two are backed by a dated ballot today. The 2025 edition placed in August, timed to preseason football, and its Crowdsignal page now shows as closed.

One detail here is unusually specific for a poll.fm ballot: The Daily Advertiser's own sports desk, covering the tied preseason defensive vote in August 2026, put the scale of the combined ballot in print: "Fifty offensive and defensive players have been placed on the ballots voting for 2026 The Daily Advertiser's Preseason Football Player of the Year." That count spans both the offensive and defensive ballots together, not this offensive ballot alone, and it comes from the paper's own 2026 coverage rather than a Crowdsignal listing for that year.

Past that, the confirmed listing goes quiet. No category breakdown beyond the offense-defense split appears anywhere The Daily Advertiser has published, and no confirmed date for the next preseason window is posted either; the paper's own site is the only source for either once it decides them.

How a supporter actually votes today

The mechanic is a standard Crowdsignal multiple-choice ballot: a Daily Advertiser reader loads the offensive-player poll on Crowdsignal, selects the player they back from the listed options, and submits that choice. There is no separate nomination round described on the confirmed page; voting is the entire visible mechanic.

Unlike most poll.fm ballots in this network, this one comes with a printed rule rather than a gap: The Daily Advertiser's own reporting states, "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often." That statement ran alongside coverage of the ballot's defensive twin, and nothing published narrows it to one side of the vote.

Once the window closes, as it has for the 2025 edition, the ballot itself stops taking new choices; The Daily Advertiser's own site and its Crowdsignal listing are where a reopened or next-season ballot would appear.

How this ballot sits beside Louisiana's other football polls

The Daily Advertiser's Preseason Offensive Player of the Year sits among several Louisiana newspaper and broadcast fan polls covering high-school football, each answering to its own publisher and carrying no shared results with the others.

None of these polls pool their votes or share a judging panel with The Daily Advertiser's own ballot. A Louisiana player who appears on more than one at once is the subject of separate, unconnected votes, each with its own rules, not one combined campaign.

Building support on a ballot that already publishes its own rule

Most poll.fm ballots in this network leave the daily-vote question unanswered; The Daily Advertiser's does not. With the paper on the page stating plainly that "vote now and vote often" applies, an active supporter has a clearer, printed basis for repeat visits than most newspaper polls offer, though the category breakdown and the next preseason window still stay unpublished for now.

Vote-promotion services exist for newspaper polls shaped like this one, including ours, but The Daily Advertiser's own rules come first wherever it publishes them, and nothing here promises a result the paper alone decides. Sports fan poll vote services covers how outside campaign support usually works for a multiple-choice preseason ballot like this one.