As the start of the 2025 Ohio high school football regular season approaches, we're going to spend the next few weeks looking ahead through assorted Akron-area preseason polls .

Your votes will determine the Akron-area's preseason picks as the top players and teams for the season ahead.

We continue this week with who you think will be the best offensive and defensive players of the 2025 season. Each poll will be live until 5 p.m. Aug. 14. The winner will be announced in the morning Aug. 15 on BeaconJournal.com .

Players are listed alphabetically and each poll follows a look at the candidates.

Who will be Akron-area football's top offensive player in 2025?

Brayton Feister, Hoban, RB, junior

Feister was second-team All-Ohio in Division II last year after running for 2,104 y

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