Jake Attaway picks Merrimack football after year at Phillips Exeter
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One of Massachusetts’ most dominant high school quarterbacks is returning to the Commonwealth to play college football.
Phillips Exeter quarterback Jake Attaway committed to Merrimack, he announced Thursday on Instagram and X.
Attaway led the Big Red to a 6-3 record in his postgraduate season in 2025 and a Leon Modeste Bowl appearance. He missed three games with a non-throwing hand injury, but in six games amassed 1,109 passing yards and 14 touchdowns to go along with 598 rushing yards and 10 scores. The Hudson native earned a spot on the All-NEPSAC team.
He also had an FCS offer from Albany.
Before his postgraduate year, Attaway led Hudson to its first Division 6 Super Bowl championship in 2025, capping one of the state’s most dominant quarterback careers. He is one of just six players in Massachusetts history with over 10,000 yards and his 147 total touchdowns set a state record.
Hudson went to the Final Four in his junior and senior seasons, as he played for his father Zac Attaway. The elder Attaway and Merrimack coach Mike Gennetti played college football for a season together in 2003, and Gennetti coached Zac Attaway for one season as the Lancers’ defensive backs coach.
The Warriors went 4-8 last season. Their leading passer (and rusher) quarterback Ayden Pereira, who graduated from Central Catholic, transferred to Georgia State. Jake Attaway will be in a quarterback room with returners Cole Meehan and Michael O’Connor and UMass transfer A.J. Hairston, barring other roster movement.
He’ll join fellow MetroWest players Will Claude from Framingham (Catholic Memorial), Natick’s Ronald Sadm, Milford’s Nick Araujo and Wellesley’s Max Poirier (via Proctor Academy).
This article originally appeared on MetroWest Daily News: Merrimack football picks up commitment from Hudson’s Jake Attaway
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