Here is Friday Night Drive's 2025 All-CCL/ESCC football team, with players from all 24 member programs.

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Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

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Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

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Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

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Keagen Trost, a 2019 Kankakee graduate, was named a first-team All-SEC offensive lineman earlier this week after a standout season as Missouri's right tackle. His former Kays teammate Jyaire Hill and Manteno native Josh Gesky received All-Big Ten recognition.

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Here is the 2025 Suburban Life All-Area football team.

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Oswego senior defensive back/receiver Mariano Velasco, who caught nine touchdown passes and also had six interceptions, four returned for touchdowns, in helping lead the Panthers to the Class 8A state championship, is the Record Newspapers Player of the Year.

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Montini junior quarterback Israel Abrams, who threw for over 4,000 yards and 40 touchdowns in leading the Broncos to a 14-0 season and second straight state championship, is the Suburban Life Player of the Year.

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Pat New, a Benet alum who won 92 games and made 10 IHSA playoff appearances as the school's head football coach, is retiring after 16 seasons. "It was difficult at first... but I knew that I made the right decision.”

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Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

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