2025 Outlook

Head Coach: Ed Hazelett (1st season)

Career Record: 0-0

Conference: Southland

Last Playoff: Class 6A Quarterfinals, 2024

Best Playoff: Class 5A Second place, 2021

2024 Record: 10-2

Four years ago, the Kankakee football team made its first, and so far only, state championship appearance when they took home the IHSA Class 5A runner-up plaque in 2021. After four years in his native Indiana, the defensive coordinator of that team, Ed Hazelett , is back to lead the Kays as their new head coach.

Hazelett replaces now-Evanston coach Miles Osei, who led the Kays to a 21-3 record and a pair of Class 6A quarterfinal trips in his two seasons on W. Jeffery St. And with contests against defending state champions Nazareth (Class 5A) and Lincoln-Way East (Class 8A), there’s

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