Two 1,000-yard backs. One Lexington Christian connection.

Brady Hensley ran for 138 yards and a touchdown in Eastern Kentucky’s 30–⁠20 win over West Georgia on October 10, passing 1,000 career rushing yards. Another Lexington Christian Academy alumnus was in EKU’s starting lineup: offensive lineman Anthony Johns. EKU game recap Official EKU box score Brady Hensley’s EKU bio Anthony Johns’s EKU bio

For LCA followers, the milestone has a familiar sound. Virginia’s Xavier Brown passed 1,000 career rushing yards on September 19. He ran for 71 yards against West Virginia, including a 47-yard touchdown. Xavier Brown’s Virginia bio

Johns connects the stories across the years. His EKU biography specifically credits his blocking for Brown at Lexington Christian, where Brown rushed for 1,511 yards and 22 touchdowns in 2021 and earned Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year honors. Johns played there for Doug Charles. Anthony Johns’s EKU bio Xavier Brown’s Virginia bio

The school’s alumni list puts Brown and Johns in its 2022 group and Hensley in 2024. Their shared thread is the school: their college biographies list Brown’s hometown as Lexington, Johns’s as Winchester and Hensley’s as Richmond. LCA’s alumni list Xavier Brown’s Virginia bio Anthony Johns’s EKU bio Brady Hensley’s EKU bio

EKU visits Tennessee Tech on October 17. That gives LCA fans another chance to follow Hensley and Johns together, with Brown’s Virginia career offering a second college team to keep up with. EKU game recap LCA’s alumni list

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