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PHOTOS: Meet the 2025 All-Metro football team

  • MIKE KROPF Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • Jan 13, 2026 Updated Feb 6, 2026
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Photos of the 2025 All-Metro football team, led by the player of the year, Varina QB Kaleb Wyche. 

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The 2025 All-Metro football first team defense

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The 2025 All-Metro football offense

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Hermitage's Andre Clarke Jr.

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Benedictine's Landon Snyder

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Manchester's Antonio Turner

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Benedictine's Maddox Cochrane

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Cosby's Grant Horvath

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Benedictine's Fred Dolan

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St. Christopher's Darius Gray

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Cosby's Brady Sakowitz

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Highland Springs' Antoine Richardson

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Dinwiddie's Robert Pettaway

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Powhatan's Ben Whitver

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Varina's DaMari Carter

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Douglas Freeman's Hank Beach

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Varina's JaySean Richardson

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Hopewell's T-Ron Richardson

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Junior Kaleb Wyche next season has a chance to become the fourth player to be named All-Metro player of the year twice, joining Collegiate’s Russell Wilson (2005-06), Dinwiddie’s Harry Dalton (2022, 2024) and Highland Springs’ Khristian Martin (2022-23).

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Junior Kaleb Wyche, the All-Metro player of the year, passed for 2,520 yards, ran for 1,223 and accounted for 51 touchdowns while quarterbacking Varina to the Class 4 state championship this season. Father Kennard and brother KJ were stars in another sport, combining for three All-Metro selections in basketball. The three have combined for three state titles, two by Kennard and on by Kaleb.

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Dinwiddie's Zion Boisseau

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Thomas Dale's Cole Leinberger

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Huguenot's Markel Dabney

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Armstrong's A'veri Hornes

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Armstrong's Donzell Jones-Teal

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Huguenot's Jayce Bigelow

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Highland Springs' JJ Archer

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Varina's Braylon Hood

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Varina's Kaleb Wyche

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Douglas Freeman's Kyle Bitsko

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Highland Springs' Devyn Simmons

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Mills Godwin's Brody McNeel

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