Luke Kromenhoek of Benedictine and Jake Merklinger of Calvary Day are two of Georgia Power's Top 100 players to watch, both at the quarterback position. The Georgia High School Football Daily (GHSFD) e-mail newsletter on the internet announced this on Wednesday, August 2. 2023. The GHSFD will announce the leading players at each position throughout the month of August.
Kromenhoek is a 6 feet 4 inches tall senior and weighs 185 pounds. He has committed to play college football at Florida State. He is a good quarterback who can throw and run with the ball. Last season, Luke passed for 2,576 yards, threw 24 touchdown passes, and ran for 453 yards and seven scores. GHSFD stated Kromenhoek is the consensus No. 8 QB prospect nationally and rated No. 3 nationally by 247Sports.
Merklinger is a 6 feet 3 inches tall senior and weighs 195 pounds. He has also committed to play college football at the next level at Tennessee. Jake is known 
for being a precise, keen, pro-style quarterback who figures out what the defense is doing. Last season, he passed for 1,987 yards and 32 touchdown passes, and only two interceptions and ran for 283 yards and four scores. According to GHSFD, Merklinger is the consensus No. 7 quarterback nationally. Rivals.com ranks him as No. 5.
Kromenhoek and Merklinger are considered two of the country's best high school quarterbacks, and their teams are expected to make deep runs in the Georgia High School Association 2023 playoffs in their respective classifications. Benedictine is the GHSA Class 4A back-to-back champions, and Calvary Day School reached the GHSA Class 3A quarterfinals.
About the GHSFD e-mail newsletter - Georgia High School Football Daily is an e-mail newsletter that Todd Holcomb and Chip Saye put together and own. Holcomb was the lead high school football writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and helped start the Georgia High School Football Historians Association. Saye has worked in the newspaper business for 38 years. He has covered high school sports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Athens Banner-Herald, and the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail, and the Gwinnett Daily News.
PHOTO CREDIT: Luke Kromehoek Noles247,com and Jake Merklinger social media pages.
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