Who is Prep Redzone New Jersey's Defensive Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Prep Redzone New Jersey Defensive Player of the Week poll is

Prep Redzone New Jersey is a high school football publication, and each week it lets supporters choose a defensive standout through a public award vote. The programme asks the question "Who is Prep Redzone New Jersey's Defensive Player of the Week" and attaches a week number to each ballot, so the series runs week by week through the high school season rather than as a single end-of-season vote.

Crowdsignal, the poll.fm service, carries every ballot in the series, and poll.fm/16205667 is the address of the newest one. A weekly series is one programme, and that address always points to the season's most recent ballot rather than to a frozen archive of past weeks. Supporters land on a short list of nominees, each presented with a class year, a school and a defensive stat line from a recent game, and choose the performance they believe deserves the weekly honour.

The award is defensive-only, which separates it from broader player of the week ballots that mix offence and defence. Nominees arrive through the organizer's own submission process, and the published stat lines show the kind of performance the ballot rewards: tackle counts, tackles for loss, sacks, interceptions and pick-sixes attached to winning results.

When the poll runs and what dates are published

The weekly rhythm is stated by the organizer itself: nomination submissions must be entered by Monday at 9am CST each week to be considered, and the Player of the Week Poll will be posted each Tuesday throughout the entirety of the high school season. Performances must come from the previous week or weekend, so each ballot is anchored to the games just played.

Confirmed edition years for the programme are 2025 and 2026. The 2025 ballots fall across September and October, which matches the heart of a New Jersey high school football regular season. Because this is a weekly series inside an annual programme, the season's shape repeats each of those years even though every week brings a fresh question and a fresh nominee list.

Exact calendar dates for any particular week's ballot are not printed by the organizer; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same is true of a season start and end date: the Tuesday cadence is published, the precise week-by-week calendar is not.

Two gaps remain. Neither a limit on repeat voting nor an eligibility rule is spelled out on the ballot page. And the organizer publishes no written selection criteria for how nominees move from the nomination form onto the Tuesday ballot, so supporters see only the finalists each week.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

Voting takes a couple of minutes and needs no account. Open poll.fm/16205667, the address that always serves the newest ballot in the series. The page title names the week number, so a supporter can tell at a glance whether they are looking at the current week's poll or one that has already closed.

The ballot lists its nominees as radio choices. Each choice pairs a player with a school, a class year and a defensive stat line drawn from the previous week's games, along with the score of the game the performance came from. A supporter marks the choice they favour and submits. The vote counts immediately once the form is returned.

Nominees are not self-selecting on the ballot page. The organizer asks that submissions be entered through its player of the week nomination form by Monday at 9am CST, with accomplishments taken from the previous week or weekend. That makes Monday the effective deadline for a performance to reach the following Tuesday's vote, and it means families, coaches and statisticians who want a player considered should act early in the week rather than after the poll is live.

Because a new poll posts every Tuesday through the high school season, the practical habit for supporters is a weekly return: vote early in the week the ballot is fresh, and come back the following Tuesday for the next round of nominees.

How this ballot sits beside other New Jersey player votes

New Jersey has a crowded field of weekly high school award polls, and this one is distinct on three counts. It is defensive-only, it is run by Prep Redzone New Jersey rather than a newspaper, and its ballots are served through Crowdsignal's poll.fm rather than a publisher's own voting tool.

The nearest neighbours are all listed on this site. The Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week is a newspaper-run ballot that spans sports. The New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week and the Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball both cover football more broadly than a defensive award does. The New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week move to the winter sport, while the NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week covers track and cross country performances.

For a supporter, the practical point is that these programmes do not share ballots or results. A nominee who appears on the Prep Redzone defensive poll may well appear on a newspaper ballot in the same season, but each vote is counted separately by each organizer. A campaign built around one programme does not spill into the others.

Strengthening support for a nominee in this weekly poll

This ballot rewards early-week organisation more than anything else, because the window is short and fixed. A performance from Friday night must be submitted through the nomination form by Monday at 9am CST to be considered for that Tuesday's poll, so the people around a player should send stats and context to the organizer straight after the game rather than waiting to see whether the nominee appears.

Once the Tuesday ballot is live, the useful moves are ordinary ones: share the direct ballot link with the nominee's stat line attached, ask teammates, families and the school community to vote, and remind them that the series resets every week, so an early-season ballot is not the last chance for a strong defensive performance to be recognised.

The organizer publishes no policy on outside voting help, so the live ballot page is where any such rule would appear, and its per-supporter limits are not printed either. A general overview of legitimate ways to widen support sits on our award votes page; check the organizer's published terms before spending money on a weekly high school vote.