Cocoa QB Brady Hart Wins Florida Mr. Football 2024 Award

Brady Hart caps off the 2024 high school football season after winning the Florida Mr. Football 2024 award. The Cocoa Tigers quarterback received the prestigious individual trophy after getting 131 points and ten first-place votes. Venice Indians running back Jamarice Wilder finished second in the voting.

Hart won the award after leading the Tigers to a third consecutive Class 2A state championship. He had 260 passing yards and a pair of touchdowns when they defeated Gadsden County last month for the title. That triumph had Cocoa finishing eighth in the Florida On3 Composite Team Rankings.

In addition to the Florida Mr. Football award, Hart is also the Class 2A Player of the Year. It isn’t hard to see why because he had two 500-yard passing games last season. One of those games was in the state semifinal against Cardinal Mooney, finishing with 508 yards and three touchdowns. Meanwhile, his career-best 527 passing yards came against Venice last September.

In addition to those impressive feats, the senior quarterback had seven games with at least 300 passing yards in 2024. Eight of those games came against state playoff teams, including St. Thomas Aquinas, Heritage, and Villages Charter.

Those numbers helped the Florida Mr. Football 2024 winner to break his school’s single-season record for passing yards. Hart surpassed Blake Boda’s record of 4,028 yards against Cardinal Mooney, a big part of his over 8,244 passing yards in high school.

Hart’s victory also means Cocoa is the first Florida high school football team to have back-to-back Mr. Football winners. Tigers wide receiver and Florida State signee Jayvan Boggs won it last year, making him the first winner from Brevard County. Boggs edged Buchholz’s Myles Graham, Norland’s Ennio Yapoor, and Mainland’s LJ McCray with 107 points and five first-place votes.

Hart, a Texas A&M signee, joins past Florida Mr. Football winners Anquan Boldin, Derrick Henry, Dalvin Cook, and Tim Tebow.