Already the accolades are beginning for Polk County coaches after both had big seasons – region championships and playoff runs for both Rockmart and Cedartown are notable years for sure.

NWGAFootball is among the first to honor Rockmart Head Coach Biff Parson and Cedartown Head Coach Jamie Abrams this year, including both in their Top 5 Coaches of 2020 list for the area.

Parson came in fifth – appropriately for his fifth season as head coach of the Jackets – and Abrams third in the Top 5 line-up.

Fannin County’s Chad Cheatham took the first place spot as NWGAFootball’s Coach of the Year for 2020, and for good reason. The Rebels were an unranked squad at the beginning of the season and made a historic run in 7-AA with the team’s first region title since 2007, a perfect regular-season record and the team made it to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1995.

Parson has headed his squad to some big accomplishments over the past years, with the fourth region title in a row – the first in 6-AAA after moving up this season in classification. In the past five seasons, Parson has a record of 52-10 overall leading the Jackets. They’ve also made it into the playoffs all five years he’s been leading the team – including a title run in 2018 that ended with the Jackets in second place to Heard County.

Abrams is a first-year head coach for the Bulldogs, who went 8-3 on the year and took Cedartown to its first region title since 2001, and the first appearance in the quarterfinals since 2002. The Bulldogs also went perfect in region play in their move into 7-AAAA this year (though Heritage-Catoosa and the Bulldogs didn’t get to play due to COVID-19 cases on the Generals squad at the time.)

Other coaches honored this year were Jay Poag of Christian Heritage in fourth place, and Josh Groce from Gordon Lee in second.