It isn’t much of a surprise that Woodgrove High School freshman quarterback Colton Dabkowski has burst onto the high school football scene.
Wolverines head coach Derek Barlow first noticed Dabkowski a few years ago as a middle schooler and concluded that his own son would have to become a wide receiver.
Opposing coaches noticed last year when Dabkowski, then in the eighth grade, quarterbacked Woodgrove’s freshman football team.
“No offense,” one coach told Barlow, “but why aren’t you starting this kid on the varsity?”
If anyone else needed to know about Dabkowski, he made one more introduction this past Friday.
Playing in just his second varsity game, Dabkowski completed 18 of 20 passes for 326 yards and four touchdowns and rushed 17 times for 133 yards and two touchdowns as the Wolve