It’s a record-breaking year for Saugus quarterback Jake Nuttall, who in week seven broke the school record for most touchdowns thrown in a game and is now the all-time leader in completions and passing yards at Saugus High School.
“I’m really insanely grateful to own a few different records. It feels like all the early morning and late nights and the highs and lows paid off in the end. And to officially have broken these records, I can’t say other words besides that I am truly blessed,” Nuttall said in an interview with The Signal.
Nuttall has been the varsity starter for Saugus for several seasons and has seen the ups and downs of high school football.
In his sophomore season, the Centurions were winless, and last season when Nuttall was a junior, the team only achieved two wins.
In an era in high school football where players either transfer to another school or quit the sport all together, Nuttall stuck around with Saugus, and it paid off.
The Centurions are tied for third place in the Foothill League standings and a shot at the playoffs with the team having a 7-2 overall record and 3-2 in league play.
“It obviously means a lot, whenever you have a winning coach with as much history as coach (Jason) Bornn, an offensive coordinator like Scotty Hamilton who’s the mastermind behind our offensive success, and a quarterback coach like Scott Maxwell who’s gone through so much off the field in his life and still shows up and pours all his energy into practice,” Nuttall said. “That’s contagious and makes you want to be a part of the program. I am so glad, again, how everything paid off in the end we got to experience this magical Cinderella-like story that’s still continuing.”
As of week nine of the 2025 season, Nuttall has 5,051 career passing yards and is in the running to be this year’s Foothill League passing yards leader with Jacob Paisano, his old youth football teammate.
As for Nuttall, he’s grateful for the records but credits all the success to his teammates, guys who he considers a second family.
“I’ve been up and playing with a lot of these guys when we were sophomores on varsity, I want to give them thanks to all of them because I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them,” he said. “And I want to give a special thanks to my offensive line, they don’t get enough credit and never get their names in the papers but the work they put in makes things like this possible for me.”
