Our latest player of the week has already committed to Liberty University next season. The Flames are getting a quarterback, that for the last three years, has been charged with making sure that Cave Spring's offense is in high gear.
It certainly was last week against Grundy, as Josh Woodrum played a role in six of the Knights seven touchdowns, in a regional semifinal win.
"Josh was just on Friday night. Everything he threw was right where we wanted it," said Tim Fulton.
Woodrum completed 10 of his 14 passes against the Golden Wave for 262 yards and four touchdowns. He also rushed for 44 yards and two scores, helping Cave Spring to a 50 to 14 win.
"We scored on the first play from scrimmage and it got called back. But definitely our offense was clicking and our defense was getting stops. It was just a complete game from our first string," said Woodrum.
The senior signal caller was entrusted with the keys to the Knights fast paced attack, and clearly made it go. It's required a bit of a rhythm, keeping everyone on their toes.
"We're very up tempo, and I think the big thing about us is that we try to get teams out of position so that we can attack them from the position that they're in, so I think that's the main thing that helps our offense score and take advantage of teams. And also we can grind the clock out with our run game too so that helps us a lot," said Woodrum.
"He's come in here and started for us for three years. He has worked hard. When you look at a leader, you wanna have on your football team, you look at your quarterback. And you start looking at a young man like Josh Woodrum who is gonna be in the weight room, he's gonna lead in a positive direction. So much that we ask goes into his leadership ability and then with his athleticism, it just makes us go," said Fulton.
Woodrum is the middle of three athletic brothers. Older brother Taylor plays soccer at Johns Hopkins, while 15 year old Chris is an avid wrestler and swimmer. He's also provided Josh with plenty of inspiration, after being born with Down's Syndrome.
"He went to the nationals for Special Olympics this past year and got two golds and a silver so I definitely look up to him in that part, but I definitely think he looks up to me and my older brother because we've always been kind of the sports figures in the family so he wants to come with us and be with us whenever we have glory moments in sports. So he really looks up to us," said Woodrum.
"It is a pleasure to have Chris around. Friday he just wanted to run out on the field with Josh and I know how close they are. So we decided we would let that happen and it was really awesome. You see Chris and he works hard. He's working out with our wrestling team. He's swimming and the national qualifying. It's really neat to have Chris around," said Fulton.
"I don't see him any different. He's just my little brother and he's just a normal person to me," said Woodrum.
