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FOX19 NOW Sports is featuring the 19 football players you need to watch this season. We’ve scoured the Tri-State and will reveal one player each day leading up to the first Final Quarter game of the season. Lakota West has 2 guys to watch this year.

One of the best defensive prospects in the country, Lakota West’s Steven Faucheux is No. 3 on the FOX19 Now Top 19 on 19. The Firebirds’ defensive lineman is ranked as the fifth best player in the state of Ohio in the 2019 class and the No. 12 ranked defensive tackle in the nation. Offered scholarships by schools in the SEC, ACC, Big Twelve and Big Ten, Faucheux is committed to play college football at Purdue and is the third-ranked senior on our list of the top nineteen seniors in the Tri-State.
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Long, fast and physical — that’s how Lakota West High School senior defensive back Jeremiah Ross describes his game. Rated as a 3-star prospect by 247sports.com, Ross is the rock of the Firebirds secondary and the second University of Cincinnati commit on this year’s Top 19 on 19. Ross checks in at No. 8 on our list of the best senior football players in the Tri-State.
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