Meet the 50 best Dallas-area high school football players in the Class of 2027<\/a><\/p>\nOutside linebacker Israel Samuel, another class of 2028 prospect, anchors the Lake Highlands defensive unit. The shifty 6-2 linebacker harped on the importance of improving tangible skills in the tournament, such as drop-backs and his positional versatility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Samuel has 17 offers from Power Four programs, including five of the seven major conference schools in Texas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m big in my faith, so that\u2019s how I stay grounded,\u201d Samuel said. \u201cI give all my success to him. So that\u2019s how I stay grounded and keep a level head.\u201d<\/p>\n
North Forney\u2019s premier wide receiver in the class of 2027, Briceson Thrower Jr., understands the foundational value 7-on-7 provides. The 6-3\u00a0wideout, who committed to Texas on June 6,\u00a0was frustrated with himself and his teammates after they lost their first game of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI gotta make sure the guys is on point, not just on the field, but off it,\u201d Thrower said. \u201cLike, make sure they recover, eat right, and things like that, make sure they\u2019re good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thrower caught 32 passes for 528 yards and five touchdowns his junior year. After receiving dozens of offers, the four-star athlete decided to stay close to home and play for the Longhorns.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stressful recruitment process was a weight on Thrower\u2019s shoulders, and he\u2019s glad to focus solely on winning football games for North Forney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mind [was] going, going, and going, and going,\u201d Thrower said. \u201c\u2018Is this the right place for me? Is it a place I can call home? Is this school what I really need? \u2019 But now that it\u2019s pretty much over, I\u2019m already committed, it\u2019s a real big relief.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Dallas recruits at any point in their recruitment journeys know when they step between the lines at 7-on-7, the objective reverts to its simplistic roots: win football games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[7-on-7] is very important,\u201d Zingelmann said. \u201cIf we have Coppell on our chest, we\u2019ve got to show people what we\u2019re really about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coppell quarterback Carter Zingelmann (11) leaps in to the end zone to score on a touchdown run during…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":895308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1318,3102,362794,358,362795,362796,338143,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-895307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-sports-football","tag-texas","tag-tp-coppell","tag-tp-coppell-school","tag-tp-flower-mound-school","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}