Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

The 2025 Rhode Island high school football regular season is over and the last week of RIIL play was certainly filled with the type of games you’d expect this time of the season. It wasn’t hard to find worthy candidates for the Providence Journal Player of the Week for Week 8, but narrowing the list proved plenty difficult.

A lot of factors went into whittling the list down to these names, but we think they’re more than deserving as our nominees. Who should win? As always, we’ll let our readers make that decision.

To cast your vote, check out the bios of this week’s five nominees and then scroll to the bottom of the page and pick who you think should be honored as Player of the Week. Voting opens at 9 a.m. on Monday and runs until

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