Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Who Are The Best High School Football Players You Have Seen Personally?

Featured Replies

Ced Benson, Shaud Williams and Bubba Franks. If you can't figure out from that list that I grew up in West Texas, not sure what to tell you.

 

Adrian Peterson ran me over, does that count? 

But we held him to like 60 yards and beat them so haha fuck him. 

Rodderick Muckleroy (Hallsville).   Excelled at UT.

Kendrick Muckleroy (Rodderick's older brother. IMO was a better athlete than Rodderick but did not have the grades.  He was always as fast as he needed to be and could change direction in mid-air.)

Josh Cochran (Hallsville). Crushed people all of the time.  Unfortunately he had a bum shoulder that never allowed him to develop proper upper body strength.  Great footwork though.  Started as a true freshman at Texas but retired before finishing his eligibility due to injuries.  Now on Mack Brown's staff at UNC.

LaMichael James (Liberty Eylau)  Quick and fast.  Had a great career at Oregon.

Adrian Petersen (Palestine).  We all know about him.

Patrick Mahomes (Whitehouse)  My son played against him for 6 years.  Saw the progression.

KD Cannon (Mt. Pleasant).  He made some freaky catches.  Had a good career at Baylor.  Thought he would do more.

10 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

Ced Benson, Shaud Williams and Bubba Franks. If you can't figure out from that list that I grew up in West Texas, not sure what to tell you.

 

Hah, Shaud Williams from Andrews. Back in my day Andrews had a QB named Keith Brooks who was the USA Today athlete of the year; guy was phenomenal. He went to SMU and ended up playing safety for the death penalty-enducing Ponies...

Edited by Ignatius

Thank you for letting me answer this question again. 
 

Tommy Kramer

i intercepted two of his passes in a game one time. No need to discuss the four touchdown passes thrown on me that night though. 

Shon Mitchell.

Right up until a defender from Hays dived into his legs and ended his High School career. Ah well. It worked out.

Fred Smith from sealy, same town Eric Dickerson is from. Eric is a top 3 or 4 all time leading rusher in the NFL but #2 in sealy all time.

Fred loved to steal stuff though.

Rocket Ismail. He was a RB in high school (mostly WR at Notre Dame and the pros) The only tactic that ever worked to stop him was to let the grass on the field grow to over a foot in length and hope he got tripped up by the weeds.

 

 

 

 

 

I saw Dominic Rhoades (Abilene Cooper) in a playoff game once against Amarillo High.  He was running all over the place, breaking 11 tackles on the way to the end zone almost every time he touched the ball, it was unreal.  The people beside us in the stands were talking about some rumor that he was inbred.  Whatever he was, he was a beast on the field.

Ramonce Taylor.  Maybe I'm partial because I'm from Belton, but the couple times I saw him play in high school, I remember thinking I had never seen a high school kid move with the fluidity that he did.  He was fun to watch.  Glad he ended up at Texas, but I think he could have done a lot more here, maybe in the NFL, if he had his head on straight back then.

1 hour ago, markstanco said:

Fred Smith from sealy, same town Eric Dickerson is from. Eric is a top 3 or 4 all time leading rusher in the NFL but #2 in sealy all time.

Fred loved to steal stuff though.

This made me laugh.

This made me laugh.
Why is that? Didn't he have an ankle bracelet on during the playoffs?
1 hour ago, markstanco said:

Fred Smith from sealy, same town Eric Dickerson is from. Eric is a top 3 or 4 all time leading rusher in the NFL but #2 in sealy all time.

Fred loved to steal stuff though.

This reminds me of a high school story.

There was a thief on our team stealing items, mostly money, from the locker room.

No one knew who it was. One day I was called into the coaches office. He gave me a $100 bill to place in my locker as bait. It worked. Caught the guy that afternoon trying to take it. I was scared!!

1 minute ago, markstanco said:
5 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:
This made me laugh.

Why is that? Didn't he have an ankle bracelet on during the playoffs?

Your deadpan delivery about it made me chuckle. Otherwise I have  no idea about who he even is!

1 hour ago, J-Mart said:

Ramonce Taylor.  Maybe I'm partial because I'm from Belton, but the couple times I saw him play in high school, I remember thinking I had never seen a high school kid move with the fluidity that he did.  He was fun to watch.  Glad he ended up at Texas, but I think he could have done a lot more here, maybe in the NFL, if he had his head on straight back then.

Ramonce as a freshman was more explosive than Jamaal Charles as freshman on the same team, and that’s no slight on Jamaal. RT could have had his number retired at UT if he’d kept his head screwed on...

6 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

Fred liked to steal stuff though

This made me laugh.

Old sticky fingers Fred
 

19 hours ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

Saw both Allen Iverson (in person) and Michael Vick (local TV).  Quicksilver ... both were incredible athletes very young.

Forgot one .. Ronald Curry, who went on to play football and basketball at UNC, then had a decent NFL career with the Raiders.  Currently, he’s WR coach for the Saints.

Virginia Tidewater area has produced a ton of talent.

Definitely was Roy Williams. Saw him in a playoff game his junior year and he was the proverbial man among boys. Just so much bigger and faster than the opposing players. 

17 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Is there any video of Casey Hampton playing MLB in high school? I remember seeing a highlight tape one time that was hilarious but I don’t see it on the intertrons no more. 

Shared it in the craps thread, possibly on TOS, but I played craps with Hampton at L’Auberge in Lake Chuck one night.  Dude was not tall at all, but was just freaking built like a dumptruck, and I mean that in the most complimentary way.  I just kept looking at him, knowing how well he played not just in college but also for the Steelers; and thinking, ‘Damn he ain’t THAT big...’

FTR, he was very nice and didn’t come off as an ass like some of those guys can. 

I graduated from Whitehouse in 96 and we were usually pretty shitty. Good football played in East Texas though. I haven’t been to a high school game since 2003 but a few players stood out:

Rickey Dudley (TE/Henderson) - First elite player I ever saw when I was still in middle school. Went to tOSU and first round pick. Probably could have played college basketball too.

McCown brothers (QB/Jacksonville) - Best QB’s in our little area I ever saw live

Damione Lewis (DT/Sulphur Springs) - Played at Miami (Fl) and first round pick. Nearly decapitated one of my friends on a blind side block on a punt return. My friend actually bounced up and walked towards the wrong end of the field before his dad ran out of the stands to stop him. To this day, I think he still has a concussion.

Ja’mar Toombs (RB/Pine Tree) - He was just a sophomore when I was a senior but I remember him seeking out our DB’s and our guys were running away from him. Pretty sure he had 300+ that night.

Brandon Pettigrew (TE/Tyler Lee) - I grew up with and around a lot of the Pettigrews. Several of them probably could have gone further than they did...

Adrian Peterson - last high school game I attended. Whitehouse might have had 30 guys on the entire roster. Held him to 189 yards and three TD’s in the first half.

10 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Shon Mitchell.

Right up until a defender from Hays dived into his legs and ended his High School career. Ah well. It worked out.

As kids we’d wait up to watch his highlights. 

William Cole, QB @ Cedar Hill

It’s a shame Gundy tried to turn him into a DB, he would have made a helluva slot receiver.

2 hours ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

Forgot one .. Ronald Curry, who went on to play football and basketball at UNC, then had a decent NFL career with the Raiders.  Currently, he’s WR coach for the Saints.

Virginia Tidewater area has produced a ton of talent.

Insane the amount of kids this little peninsula sends to the league 

Don't go to many high school games, but went to the 2003 5A State championship game at Rice.

 

Bobby Reid and North Shore dominated the Woodlands.  Danny Amendola was on that Woodlands team.

2 hours ago, Tylerocks said:

Don't go to many high school games, but went to the 2003 5A State championship game at Rice.

 

Bobby Reid and North Shore dominated the Woodlands.  Danny Amendola was on that Woodlands team.

Who was the running back for those Woodlands teams? I recall him going to play baseball at here or Rice?

Actually played in a game against Emmit Smith. In fact our high schools were each other's fiercest rivals.

I forgot one other thing about Robert Strait. He’s the reason our junior high installed breakaway rims. He bent one dunking on us in 7th grade.

19 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Who was the running back for those Woodlands teams? I recall him going to play baseball at here or Rice?

Samson Taylor was highly touted. Went to aggy though.

Kyle Drabek, son of Doug Drabek, was a WR a few years later and also was very good at football, even though he was a better pitcher.

Edited by slorch

31 minutes ago, slorch said:

Samson Taylor was highly touted. Went to aggy though.

Kyle Drabek, son of Doug Drabek, was a WR a few years later and also was very good at football, even though he was a better pitcher.

I’m a complete dumbass. I confused mid 2000s Woodlands with Southlake Carroll

The guy I was thinking of was Aaron Luna

Chris Pryor from Converse Judson.

39 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I’m a complete dumbass. I confused mid 2000s Woodlands with Southlake Carroll

The guy I was thinking of was Aaron Luna

That is still a great name from the past though.  People always want to talk about the quarterbacks and the OL, but Luna was very important player for them in the mid-ought’s

He is only a few years older than me and played in a nearby city, but Tony Dungy might be the best high school athlete I've seen. 
Not meant to slight Magic Johnson, who was the best HS basketball player from around here

On 10/16/2020 at 9:54 AM, Greg Davis Apologist said:

I graduated from Whitehouse in 96 and we were usually pretty shitty. Good football played in East Texas though. I haven’t been to a high school game since 2003 but a few players stood out:

Rickey Dudley (TE/Henderson) - First elite player I ever saw when I was still in middle school. Went to tOSU and first round pick. Probably could have played college basketball too.
 

Dudley went to OSU on a basketball scholarship

On 10/15/2020 at 1:19 PM, CooterBrown said:


Robert Strait. Carried the ball 54 of 56 plays against us. The other two were Fumbled snaps. He also kicked off with nearly every kick sailing out of the end zone. He won district in five events...the 100, HJ, LJ, SP, and anchored the 4x100.

Bombed out at Baylor and went to prison for dealing crack.

I did not know that.

 

Mark McBath.  That's all I got.

On 10/16/2020 at 10:54 AM, Greg Davis Apologist said:



Adrian Peterson - last high school game I attended. Whitehouse might have had 30 guys on the entire roster. Held him to 189 yards and three TD’s in the first half.

Damn, I was a sophomore on that team. Playing against a senior Adrian Peterson really sucked. That was a dark season under Buddy Ray (his last year at Whitehouse).

After Peterson, the best guys I remember playing were Eddie Jones of Kilgore and Roderick Muckelroy of Hallsville.

 

Damn, I was a sophomore on that team. Playing against a senior Adrian Peterson really sucked. That was a dark season under Buddy Ray (his last year at Whitehouse).
After Peterson, the best guys I remember playing were Eddie Jones of Kilgore and Roderick Muckelroy of Hallsville.
 

Was I pretty accurate about how small the roster was? I do remember one undersized white kid tackling Peterson in the open field for a loss or very short gain. He’s probably still talking about it today...
57 minutes ago, Greg Davis Apologist said:


Was I pretty accurate about how small the roster was? I do remember one undersized white kid tackling Peterson in the open field for a loss or very short gain. He’s probably still talking about it today...

Yes. Buddy had run off most of the program by that point. 

Dwayne Orr was a beast for our high school.  John Walker from Killeen was unstoppable. Gained about 100 yards in the first quarter.  

Mark Murdock from Westwood had golden arm.  Strangest game ....watched Rod Bernstein play..regular season game at Kyle Field.  

I think weather may have been a factor. Or maybe Bryan shared grass field with College Station?

2001'sh. Houston Madison vs Houston Lamar.

Vince 

Christine Michael(sp)

Babers

Jerome ? Note Dame

Maybe Brandon Lafell

All went on to be pros

I am 5 years younger than Earl Campbell, I got to watch him do two things at John Tyler, first was he stopped a possible race riot brewing in Tyler, second become the best RB in the history of Texas High School football. He was a big fast angry beast when he got the ball, any LB that got in his way fell down in fear or got plowed like a truck over a squirrel. In the State playoffs I watched Earl mow over the Plano East defense heading to the end zone, an 170 pound DB caught up with him at at the 10 yard line, he jumped on Earl's back but never could bring him down, Earl stormed into the end zone and leaned over to let the little fellow get off his back.

  • Author
1 hour ago, Rabidhorn said:

I am 5 years younger than Earl Campbell, I got to watch him do two things at John Tyler, first was he stopped a possible race riot brewing in Tyler, second become the best RB in the history of Texas High School football. He was a big fast angry beast when he got the ball, any LB that got in his way fell down in fear or got plowed like a truck over a squirrel. In the State playoffs I watched Earl mow over the Plano East defense heading to the end zone, an 170 pound DB caught up with him at at the 10 yard line, he jumped on Earl's back but never could bring him down, Earl stormed into the end zone and leaned over to let the little fellow get off his back.

Earl is related to some family of my best friend. They all grew up in Tyler and went to John Tyler. Many of them saw Earl play in high school and to this day, still say that is the best all around player they have seen at any position in all their years. And many of them still travel all over the state to watch games.

Foswhitt Whittaker at Pearland, very very very very hard to tackle. Hard to even touch really. He torched us when I was playing ball in HS. Glad he was able to make some $ in the league, that dude battled so many injuries.
920x920.jpg

Yeah he was absurd

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.