The Post's All-Brooklyn football honors

For the second straight year, Brooklyn was football king.

Lincoln won the PSAL City Championship division title for the first time since 1993, beating borough rival Erasmus Hall in the final. Fort Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and Boys & Girls joined those two in the quarterfinals. A Brooklyn team even won the Bowl: James Madison.

In the CHSFL, Xaverian was the top team from New York City, advancing to the ‘AAA’ semifinals and Bishop Ford took home the ‘A’ crown.

All-Brooklyn football Player of the Year: Kareem Folkes, Lincoln

He was a workhorse yet also an explosive running back, a shutdown cornerback and team leader. Kareem Folkes did it all for Lincoln and then some, carrying the Railsplitters to their first city championship since 1993.

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Lincoln's Kareem Folkes is The Post's All-Brooklyn football Player of the Year.

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Lincoln's Shawn O'Connor is The Post's All-Brooklyn football Coach of the Year.

Folkes entered the season with pressure as the lone star from last season’s runner-up. In preparation for the challenge, he put himself through a demanding offseason regimen of workouts that paid off with a memorable undefeated season.

“It’s perfect,” the 5-foot-9 standout said after Lincoln topped Erasmus Hall, 20-12, at Yankee Stadium. “There’s no other way I would write this story. We made history. When I come back to the school years from now, I can say we did it.”

Folkes, who has drawn interest from Fordham, Wagner, Albany and Stony Brook, ran for a league-leading 28 rushing touchdowns and 1,748 yards. He was limited in the final against Erasmus Hall with a high left ankle sprain that cheated him of his sharp cuts and breakaway speed. He still pounded out 80 rushing yards and a touchdown and broke up the possible game-tying score to Luder Jean Louis, who had seven inches on him, in the end zone as time expired.

“It shows you the heart of a lion,” Lincoln coach Shawn O’Connor said. “He’s written his own legacy.”

All-Brooklyn football Coach of the Year: Shawn O’Connor, Lincoln

The 11th-year coach has changed the landscape at Lincoln, making it a two-sport school. He won his first title this December at Yankee Stadium – and the school’s first since 1993 – but the last three seasons have gotten people to pay attention.

Lincoln has won 20 straight regular season games, has reached the title game the last two years and has several talented underclassmen to continue the program’s upswing. O’Connor did his best work this fall getting an inexperienced team to believe in itself after returning just two starters, running back Kareem Folkes and two-way lineman Robert Kitching.

The Railsplitters had a nose-to-the-grindstone mentality from the middle of August until winning it all at Yankee Stadium in early December. They were challenged twice, in the quarterfinals against Thomas Jefferson and the city final against Erasmus Hall, yet never grew overconfident, a credit to the humble O’Connor and his hard-working staff.