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Bee Best Prep Poll: Vote for the best defensive player in Sacramento

What’s the old saying about football?

Defenses win championships? Something like that. You need stoppers at all levels of the game, right on down to the high school ranks.

Though college football returns in this state starting in November, football will not kick off in California until January to hold off COVID-19. But it’s never too early to talk stoppers.

We broke down the area’s best teams in an August story with the most expanded rankings package in Bee history, to maintain tradition of preseason stories, and we offered up a who’s who list of players to watch, so how about a voting poll to see whom you think is the region’s best defender heading into the season.

Who is the area’s top defensive player entering the season? Voting ends at noon Friday, Oct. 30.

This story was originally published October 26, 2020 at 8:51 AM.

Joe Davidson
The Sacramento Bee
Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features. He was in early 2024 named the National Sports Media Association Sports Writer of the Year for California and he was in the fall of 2024 inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame. He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association. In 2021, he was honored with the CIF Distinguished Service award. He is a member of the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Davidson participated in football and track in Oregon.
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