Class 6A Blog: Offense is primed and ready to lead Lowndes in 2025

Lowndes made a major leap forward in 2024—improving from a 4-6 record in 2023 to a 10-2 finish. Now, head coach Adam Carter is entering his third season at the helm and is going to have a group that is young, but not lacking in experience. Coach Carter caught up with Score Atlanta this past week at Georgia High School Football Media Day and talked about his team. Joining Carter were four of his key offensive pieces—including offensive tackles Ben Corhei and Abram Eisenhower and running back Mason Woods. The fourth player was Class of 2027 quarterback Jayce Johnson—who is going to announce his commitment this Sunday, Aug. 3.

“I think the biggest position group we have on our team this year coming off of this past season is our offensive line,” said Carter. “All seven of the guys that were on the field for us last year are back and then you have our quarterback that ended up pretty much starting about 70 percent of the games and played most of the snaps so those two specific groups are going to have to be the ones we look to early and then offensively in general that’s why I have four offensive guys sitting beside me because offense is going to have to lead us early on in the season for sure.”

Lowndes lost all but five touchdowns on offensve, but Carter is confident in his new skill guys that are young, but long playmakers that are all 6-foot-1 or taller. This length helped Lowndes when multiple 7-on-7 compeitions this summer and he is excited to see them take advantage of their size both in 2025 and 2026.

““We have a young group, but it is not an inexperienced group in the skill positions, really on both sides of the ball,” said Carter. “I think the youth of our football team is at the offensive skill, but also that a lot of the talent we will have on our team this year is at the offensive skill positions as well so we have some big long guys and that is the difference we are going to have this year, we have the length.”

On the offensive line, Eisenhower is a 6-foot-5, 270-pound offensive tackle that is heading into his junior season and he saw time as a tight end as a freshman and has game experience under his belt. As for Corhei, he is a massive prospect with 22 career starts and he committed to USF on June 27. The growth of these two tackles and some other position moves has led to a major difference in terms of physicality according to Carter that he believes will help them measure up against the tough schedule awaiting the Vikings in 2025.

“I think the biggest difference with these guys this year is the physical maturity,” said Carter. “We were probably not where we needed to be last year and were still trying to play a little catchup from that standpoint and so you see the two guys sitting with me right now and those are the bookend tackles for us. Ben plays both and he goes inside and outside. But we moved another defensive linemen to the offensive line to give us a little more weight. I think we were a little light last year sometimes and so you know that physical part. Every day is a learning opportunity. Ben has started 22 games. Abram played tight end for us as a freshman and as an extra offensive lineman so he has played a bunch of football. SO just that leadership and experience up there with the biggest gains I feel like it also came in the weight room and that is the biggest difference with our team in general. I think we have made gains to close that gap on some of the teams we are going to play.”

Lowndes will open up the season with five-straight homes games—that includes Jenkins, Mt. Zion-Jonesboro, Central Gwinnett, Manatee (FL) and Kell. These non-region games will be key in preparing Lowndes for the gauntlet of Region 1 and helping them earn home field to force the 6A competition to come down to South Georgia for the playoffs.

“You know we scheduled tough so if you look at Jenkins and how they finished last year and teams like Manatee, we were their only loss until the semifinals to St. Thomas Aquinas by a field goal,” said Carter. “And then Kell was one of the top teams in the state regardless of classification and one of the most talented games and those three games right there are going to be a pretty good test of what we are going to see in the region and talent-wise those three teams are going to match up with anybody.”

Lowndes will take on Colquitt County, Tift County, Camden County and Richmond Hill before closing out the season against rival Valdosta on Oct. 31 for the Winnersville Classic.

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