If Huguenot High School football is to rise as a tower of power, Jason Wright deserves to go down as a cornerstone of the project.

The junior quarterback has certainly been “Mr. Right” in first-year Coach Charles Scott’s blueprint.

“He can beat you on the ground and through the air,” Coach Scott said. “He’s got the size (6-foot-3, 196 pounds), speed (4.6 for 40 yards) and smarts (4.0 GPA).”

After six games for the 5-2 Falcons, Wright had passed for 1,230 yards and 13 touchdowns and run for 295 yards and five more TDs. He also holds for place kicks.

Both losses were to Class 6 (larger enrollment) schools, Manchester and Cosby.

Rather than concentrate on individual statistics, Wright prefers focusing on the Falcons’ overnight improvement from back-to-back 1-8 campaigns.

Under Coach Scott, the Falcons have transformed from among the area’s weakest teams to a program with legitimate postseason aspirations.

Asked what his goal was, Wright quickly replied “to win a championship.”

Asked if that meant District, Region or State championship, he replied “the whole thing.”

Huguenot figures to contend with the likes of Varina, Hopewell and Dinwiddie (all former State champs) in the Class 4 Regional playoffs.

The son of Damiel and Sharyll Wright, this is Jason’s third high school stop, after playing as a freshman at Benedictine and last year at Manchester, where he alternated at QB with Landen Abernethy on a 11-2 squad.

“Jason was splitting snaps at Manchester; He wanted his own team and we’ve given him a lot of freedom,” Coach Scott said.

The Wrights moved from Midlothian to South Richmond to make the transfer possible.

Wright enrolled at the Forest Hill Avenue school last spring and went through 7-on-7 drills with the Falcons.

A versatile all-round athlete, he may also play basketball for the Falcons and would like to go out for the baseball team as a centerfielder.

He hails from an athletic family. His older sister, Olivia, was on Manchester’s Class 5 State finalist basketball team last winter and is now enrolled at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

“Jason is a once in a lifetime quarterback for a coach,” said HHS quarterbacks Coach Gene Townsel.

“He’s got all the tools, and he is such an incredible athlete he could play four other positions on the field, if we needed him to.”

Townsel added: “But he has a quarterback’s heart.”

More help is on the way for the Falcons.

The JVs are 8-0, led by quarterback Charles Scott Jr., a 6-foot-4, 218-pound eighth-grader at Lucille Brown Middle School. The son of the coach had 23 TD passes through eight outings.