The North Jersey Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

A weekly football vote, not a season-ending award

Most weeks of the season, North Jersey opens a fresh vote asking readers to name that week's Football Player of the Week, rather than settling one winner for the whole year. North Jersey is the organizer, and the ballot runs on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal-built polling platform, not a form built into North Jersey's own site. Five seasons are confirmed on this page: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, each falling roughly in the August-to-November stretch that tracks the New Jersey high school football calendar.

North Jersey's page treats the vote as a plain public ballot: any reader can open the current week's poll and back a favorite, with no nomination round described anywhere on it.

Five confirmed seasons, and a schedule North Jersey keeps loose

North Jersey has run this weekly football vote across five confirmed seasons: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The underlying poll.fm series behind those seasons carries 37 separate dated ballots, landing between August and November each year by the platform's own ballot identifiers, matching the length of a New Jersey high school football season.

North Jersey has not fixed a single closing day or time for any given week's ballot, so the current deadline is unpublished too; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No printed roster of categories accompanies that lone weekly question, and nothing on the page sets a per-supporter voting limit.

What comes after the 2025 season's last confirmed ballot is not written down: North Jersey has not stated when a 2026 season of weekly ballots begins, only that five straight years of the format are already confirmed.

How a supporter votes in this week's ballot

Casting a vote here is a short action repeated most weeks of the season. A supporter opens the current North Jersey football ballot at poll.fm/16311099, reads that week's Player of the Week question, and selects the option next to the name they want to back.

One click on that option marks the choice; a second press on the button at the foot of the page submits it. North Jersey's weekly football ballot asks for no account, email address or sign-in step before that submission counts.

Because a given week's ballot closes once North Jersey opens the next one, the practical window for a vote to count is short and rolling rather than fixed to one printed hour. Checking the poll.fm/16311099 page directly is the reliable way to see whether that week's football vote is still open.

Where this weekly football vote sits among North Jersey's other polls

North Jersey runs several other public votes across New Jersey high school sport alongside this weekly football poll, each one of this page's own listed neighbors.

Two of those six share football specifically. New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week runs statewide rather than confined to the North Jersey region this page covers, and Jersey Sports Zone's Football Game Ball hands out its own separate honor under a different publisher's byline. A strong showing on North Jersey's own ballot carries no weight toward either result.

The remaining four sit outside football entirely: New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week, Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week and NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week each settle their own weekly result on their own page.

Strengthening support for a name in this week's vote

What North Jersey confirms about this weekly football ballot is the mechanic itself: a public form, one click to pick a name, one more to submit it, repeated on a rolling basis through roughly August to November. Because a new ballot replaces the last one on no printed fixed schedule, showing up again each week counts for more than a single large push near one deadline.

North Jersey has posted no outside-help policy for this weekly football vote, so nothing on the page says what the organizer permits or forbids about purchased or automated support; the live poll.fm page, not this one, would carry that rule if North Jersey ever prints one. Building real momentum for an online ballot covers approaches suited to a rolling weekly poll like this one rather than a once-a-year vote.