Kion “K5” Wright, Cheltenham High School’s heralded football standout, has committed to the University of Delaware to continue his playing career.

The defensive end and linebacker was one of the most highly recruited players in the area and is the first Panther football player to be named to the All State First Team in the largest classification group since the inception of the All State football teams in 1939.

In September 2022, Glenside Local reported on Wright’s high-profile collegiate offers. According to Kion, his mother Star, who is also his coach, has a good deal to do with his success.

“I try to still maintain that mother-son relationship off the field,” Star Wright said. “On the field, it’s just strictly field. There’s really no motherly love on the field.”

Star Wright has been a coach at Cheltenham High School for two years. She also plays linebacker in a women’s professional football league for a team she owns, the Philadelphia Phantoms.

Kion averaged nine tackles per game and totaled 12 quarterback sacks despite being double- and triple-teamed most of his senior season for the Panthers.

From Wright’s University of Delaware biography:

Four-year starter in high school, playing three years at Northeast High School and one year at Cheltenham High School, serving as a team captain at each school … Named First Team All-Philadelphia Public School in 2021 and First Team All-SOL in 2022 … As a sophomore and junior at Northeast, finished with 129 total tackles, 23 sacks and 52 TFL … As a senior, totaled 105 tackles, seven sacks and 20 TFL … In the classroom, was an honor roll student.

Over the years, the University of Delaware football program has produced 29 NFL players and a United States President in Joe Biden. 

For more on the Wright family, you can visit CBS News’ article here.

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Information partially provided by Chuck Langerman, local historian. Photo courtesy of University of Delaware