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BSN ONE ON ONE INTERVIEW WITH THE WILBUR MARSHALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: SAMADRAE HAWKINS, SPONSORED BY @OrangePestControl:

When you’re piecing together the greatest ever Dark Side Defensive Players of all time, Samadrae Hawkins has secured his place with the Grady Reddings, Rick Rivers and DaDa Whites of the Cocoa Tiger football world.

Samadrae was runner up for this award last season to his brother who is now at Ohio State and he was a top five finisher as a sophomore as he registered 169 stops in 2021.

But this year the he entered the season as the favorite to win it and he never exceeded the expectations necessary to capture every vote.

Hawkins was a game changer on a defense that was filled with them and in some of the toughest games against some of the best teams, Samadrea was even better.

Against Jones, Venice, St. Thomas, Eau Gallie and Jones he had 64 tackles with nine tackles for a loss.

In the playoffs he was unstoppable registering 59 total tackles and nine more tackles for a loss.

His strip sack fumble and near scoop and score in week one vs. Jones set the tone for a Tiger season that will live in many memeories forever.

He was part of a unit that had four other players considered for this honor. Together the 2023 version of Cocoa’s defense allowed just nine points per game all season and just 5.8 points per game in the playoffs.

Hawkins exits Cocoa as the programs all time tackle leader with 434 and it may be quite some time until we see that number eclipsed.