Having played Honaker once already and preparing to face them again in a playoff rematch, count Rye Covew’s Gary Collier among the consensus of coaches offering praise when it comes to quarterback Peyton Musick of the Tigers.
“I’m going to say what everybody else says,” Collier said. “That quarterback is tough. He throws it well and he has a lot of athletes he can get the ball to.”
Musick has indeed been a masterful maestro for an offense averaging 45.8 points per game and he’s the leader of a team that carries a 12-0 record into today’s 1 p.m. clash with Rye Cove (11-1) in the Region 1D football finals at Fuller Field.
The numbers jump off the page: He’s completed 200 of his 313 pass attempts for 3,112 yards with 47 touchdowns and just three interceptions.
Musick has added seven more scores via the rush.
By the way, those 47 TD passes are the most in a single-season by a QB from far Southwest Virginia. Jake Sturgill had established the previous mark with 42 touchdown passes in 13 games for the Abingdon Falcons in 2015.