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06/06/2026

Updated Blake Moser story, no paywall

The All State Viking star was offered a scholarship at a wide receiver by the Big 12’s Iowa State Cyclones earlier this week, during a skills camp in Ames, IA.

06/03/2026

BIG 12 Road Trip Pays Off — BLAKE MOSER’s FIFTH OFFER is a BIG one — Jimmy Rogers and the IOWA STATE CYCLONES offered the 2027 All State Lake Stevens QB during his visit to Ames yesterday. The two sport standout also posted a personal best 4.37 40 at the Viking Football combine.

06/02/2026

Lake Stevens’ 2028 wide receiver MAX COOK just set a new school combine record with a blistering 4.36 40. Max (6’3 180) just finished 2nd at state in the 400m & hauled in 11 TDs & 555 yds in his sophomore campaign. He holds an Idaho offer. More to follow.

05/21/2026

LINK IN BIO 25k reads on the PEYTON PELLUER / SKYLINE FOOTBALL story overnight. We’ve got the parent complaint (over the results of the QB competition) that led to Pelluer’s suspension (minutes before a home game) and we’ve got 800 pages of emails & internal docs showing the community response in support of Pelluer and the panic inside the district. Link in bio.

05/21/2026

STORY LINK IN BIO WITH ALL 800+ pages of internal docs & emails obtained by J425 attached. “It’s pretty surreal, and it’s only going to get more surreal.”

THE SAMMAMISH PLATEAU — When he was appointed to lead the Spartans in March of 2024, Skyline High School Head Football Coach Peyton Pelluer uttered the above quote. Apparently, we need to add “prophet” to the list of skills possessed by Pelluer.

Sixteen months later, the term surreal would serve as a bit of an understatement with regard to the situation at the second-year coach’s alma mater.

Following a formidable 4-2 start to the 2025 season—marked by narrow losses to then-undefeated Tahoma and eventual state semifinalist Bellevue—the atmosphere at Skyline, a blue-blood 4A program located on the Sammamish Plateau in the Issaquah School District (ISD), shifted abruptly from competitive to absurd.

On Friday afternoon, October 17, 2025, mere hours before a critical KingCo league matchup against Woodinville, the district, via Skyline High School, issued a generic, frigid notification to the public:

“Head football coach Peyton Pelluer has been temporarily relieved of his coaching duties pending the findings and outcome of a district investigation. Assistant head coaches have assumed interim leadership of the football program.”

The directive, blasted to families by Skyline Principal Keith Hennig, instantly sidelined a hometown prodigy with a legendary backstory and an iconic name. Pelluer is a high-profile alumnus, a fourth-generation college football player from a family deeply rooted in the state’s elite collegiate programs.

More to the point, he was a first-team All-State Skyline linebacker who had personally hoisted two state championship trophies for the Spartans. link in bio

05/18/2026

J425’s investigation of the Peyton Pelluer removal / reinstatement controversy at Skyline— which publishes tonight — includes over 800 pages of internal correspondence we exclusively obtained.

Here’s a sneak peak at the early September parent complaint that started the fire storm. This complaint was ultimately deemed UNSUBSTANTIATED. The initial formal complaint re: Coach Pelluer was sent in Sept to Skyline AD Gary Mogg by a parent whose son had been involved in a “position competition” since March. The complaint is heavily redacted, but J425 can summarize the parent’s grievances:

The parent accused Coach Pelluer and Assistant Coach Jonathan Rogers of “mistreatment and their lack of concern for the safety of their players”. The parent also criticized Pelluer’s coaching culture, arguing that while Pelluer frequently refers to “the standard” as the priority for his program, he was not being held to an appropriate standard himself as an adult and representative of the school.

The Five-Point Formal Complaint
The parent’s formal complaint memo to the Athletic Department was broken down into five main sections, which were titled as follows:
* Complaint #1: Labeling
* Complaint #2: Removing [Redacted]
* Complaint #3: Mishandling [Redacted]
* Complaint #4: [Redacted] Jonathan Rogers [assistant coach] took [Redacted]
* Complaint #5: Pelluer put [Redacted]

05/17/2026

Free story on Jayden’s free July 11 football camp for kids aged 6-14. Camp registration info included in the story (link on IG Story or visit thejournal425.com). Camp info also linked on Jayden’s bio.