By: Cameron Miller

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

High School football season for the Brunswick High Pirates is right around the corner and with the Pirates coming off a great season with a team loaded with talent, I can’t wait to see how Reigning 2024 All Region 1-AAAAA Coach of the Year Garrett Grady is leading his team into this season.

Brunswick finished up last year with 6 Offensive All-Region 1^st Team selections, which were QB Grant Moore, TE Heze Kent, WR Waseem Murray, OL Chase Richardson, OL Kasiyah Charlton, and WR Jamarious Towns.

The Pirates also had 6 Defensive All-Region 1st Team selections, which were DL Lance Brown, LB Caleb Butler, LB Jeremiah Robbins, CB Sekhi Ashley, LB Kregg Richardson, CB Aviyon Addison, and J’Shawn Towns, who was the 2024 All Region 1-AAAAA Defensive Player of the Year.

The off season didn’t start off as the Pirates had expected. They are missing one big piece of their program right now, Coach Grady said “We were without our Defensive Coordinator Coach Thomas Tedder this Spring. Our thoughts & prayers are with him and his family. We are going to Coach and play at the highest level to honor him. He had a medical emergency and is still recovering.”

Although Brunswick had a few key playmakers graduate this year, they still have a loaded roster of players that are fired up to play their hearts out for Coach Tedder.

The team is also continuing to quickly develop and get better every day. When I asked Coach Grady about how the team was shaping up prior to this year’s Spring Game he told me “I thought the entire Spring Practice we got better over the 10 days we were allowed to practice. The effort was great and our coaches did a phenomenal job coaching and teaching our guys fundamentals.”

“During the Spring Game our guys competed at a high level and communicated well on both sides of the ball.” said Coach Grady following the Pirates 2025 Spring Game, which was held earlier this month.

Starting Quarterback Grant Moore who has Multiple D1 offers from Schools such as Murray State, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, did not participate this year, because he is in the final stages of coming back from a shoulder injury that happened this past baseball season.

With Moore not playing it left a lot of time for other quarterbacks Keagan Walker and Eli Overton to show off their skills and get some good reps in front of a good crowd.

The Pirates might not have had their star quarterback in the game, but they did have both of their star running backs, Josiah Gibbons who has offers from West Virginia, Tulane, East Carolina, Arkansas State, Liberty, and Kennesaw State, and Nigel Gardner who has offers from Eastern Kentucky, Arkansas State, and Eastern Carolina.

Those two have the privilege of having a wall of an offensive line led by UCF Commit Kasiyah Charlton, and Chase Richadson who has many Big D1 Offers from Georgia Southern, Kentucky, Army, Navy, West Virginia, Appalachian State, Georgia State, and many others.

Besides the depth in the run game, Moore will also have 2 monster weapons at his disposal in the passing game. Wide receiver Waseem Murray is coming off an amazing 2024 season for the Pirates where he was able to receive solid offers from Georgia Southern, Central Michigan, and Northwestern State.

The other big target Grant will have in the Passing game is 6’5 265 lb, 4 Star TE Heze Kent. Kent is going into his senior season with the Pirates and has received a total of 47 Offers to play college football.

He has his options narrowed down to the Top 5, and will be accounting his commitment between Florida, Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Texas on July 12th, 2025.

So, we’ve covered the talent all around the offensive side, but we can’t forget about stud CB Aviyon Addison, who just received his first offer from Arkansas State.

I see Addison having an amazing 2025 season and making a run for that defensive player of the year spot.

Brunswick High will scrimmage at home against the Ware County Gators. Then the season starts on the road on August 15^th in Kingsland against the Camden County Wildcats and will finish their regular season at home against the South Effingham Mustangs.

Here is a look at the full Brunswick High Pirates 2025 Schedule:

8/8: vs Ware County

8/15: @ Camden County

8/22: vs Wayne County

8/29: BYE

9/5: vs Effingham

9/12: @ Evans

9/19: vs Greenbrier

9/26: @ Glynn Academy (Brunswick)

10/3: vs Bradwell

10/10: @ Statesboro

10/17: @ Lakeside

10/24: BYE

10/31: vs South Effingham