North Central Florida Football Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 11-16): Vote Now

We’ve selected eight candidates to choose from this past week’s games

High school football is back in the Sunshine State and so begins our Player of the Week polls for areas all around the state. Teams started off the regular season with some great individual performances in Week 4.

As such, we have eight athletes nominated this week for the SBLive’s North Central Florida Defensive Football Player of the Week award from September 11-16 and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. Voting will conclude on Saturday, September 23 at 11:59 p.m. The winner will be announced in next week's poll.

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Congratulations to last week’s winner, Malakhi Boone, LB, South Sumter. 

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Here are this week's nominations.

Daniel Grow, DB, Oak Hall: Defense reigned supreme for Oak Hall in a 57-6 win over Bronson. Grow nabbed seven tackles and one went for a loss. 

Hunter Crevasse, LB, Santa Fe: The outside linebacker played well in a 31-17 loss to North Marion, with Crevasse notching an interception and fumble recovery. 

Elian Godin, LB, Forest: Godin was all over the field in the Wildcats’ 44-34 victory over Wildwood, totaling 13 tackles and an interception. 

Vincent Perrella, DL, Ocala Christian: The defensive lineman was a menace in the backfield in a 38-0 win over Oasis Christian. Perrella had seven tackles, four for loss and two sacks. 

Logan McCloud, LB, Newberry: In Newberry’s 24-21 win over Clearwater Calvary Christian, McCloud came up huge. The linebacker had nine tackles, three for a loss and an interception. 

Amari Sheppard, LB, Buchholz: The linebacker had an interception in the Bobcats’ dominating 49-20 victory over Creekside last week. 

Lecosta Byrd, LB, Fort White: It’s been a strong start defensively to the season for the Indians and they continued that in a 49-0 rout of Hamilton County. Byrd led the team in tackles with 11. 

Elias Lobato, LB, Dunnellon: Though in a 42-12 loss to Williston, Lobato was a bright spot on defense and made a team-high 13 tackles. 

-- Andy Villamarzo | villamarzo@scorebooklive.com | @sblivefl