It was another excitement-filled season of football all across the Rockford area, and it's time for you to take it all in and let your voice be heard once again by choosing a Player of the Year by voting in our poll.

Please vote only once per day, to keep the poll fair. More Rockford-area sports: Who to watch in early-season girls' basketball? Start with Freeport, Byron

Two teams won state titles from the Rockford area, Lena-Winslow in Class 1A and Byron in 3A, and one of the NIC-10 elites, Belvidere North, advanced all the way to the state semis this postseason. And that's not to mention all the regular-season excitement that was scattered across the region every Friday night, and a lot of Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons as well.

"What a year," Belvidere North's star running b

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