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Analyzing the best Dallas-area high school safeties in the Class of 2025
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Out of the 10 safeties that made The Dallas Morning News’ top 100 recruits list for the class of 2024, five of them ranked within the top 25. This year, however, not one safety made it that high on the list.
Here’s a look at each of the safeties ranked within The News’ top 100 recruits list for the class of 2024.
No. 28 Sael Reyes
Reyes, the safety ranked as No. 38 in the country according to 247Sports.com, helped DeSoto to a 16-0 record and the Texas 6A D-1 state championship during his junior season last year. He recorded 60 tackles, one sack, one interception and one forced fumble.
He committed to SMU on May 19 over scholarship offers from Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, LSU and others.
No. 29 Tyren Polley Jr.
The 5-foot-10, 180 pound rising senior at Duncanville helped his school to its second consecutive Texas 6A D-1 state championship this past season.
During the 2023-24 season, Polley Jr. recorded 51 solo tackles, 79 total tackles and three interceptions.
After receiving scholarship offers from LSU, Oklahoma, SMU and others, the safety committed to SMU on Feb 23.
No. 46 Bo Onu
The Baylor Bears added Onu, a three-star safety out of Hebron, to its class of 2025 in June.
Onu is coming off of a first-team all-district junior season, and has the ability to play a hybrid safety role as well as a roaming linebacker position.
Last season, the 6-foot-1, 210 pound safety tallied 29 tackled, snagged three interceptions and recovered three fumbles.
No. 59 Ayden Webb
According to 247Sports.com, Webb is ranked as No. 110 among all safeties nationally in the class of 2025.
Webb aided Lake Highlands to a 9-3 overall record and a 7-1 district record, placing them first in the 6A Region 1 District 7 standings.
The three-star safety committed to the Oklahoma State Cowboys on June 19 after receiving scholarship offers from SMU, TCU, Houston and others.
No. 63 Nathan Tilmon
Three days after his official visit to Texas in June, Tilmon decommited from SMU and decided to re-open his recruitment status.
The 6-foot, 185-pound safety out of Mansfield Timberview only played in eight games during his junior season and recorded 34 tackles and six pass breakups.
No. 85 Tobias Gary
During his 16-game junior season, Gary aided South Oak Cliff to a Texas 5A D-II state runner-up finish and the Golden Bears’ third consecutive year making a title game appearance. He tallied 59 tackles and three interceptions during the 2023-24 season.
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound safety received scholarship offers from Texas, Kansas, Texas Tech and others but chose to commit to LA Tech.
No. 91 Braylan McDonald
McDonald, a three-star recruit from Lancaster, helped his team to an overall record of 9-6 and a 5-3 district record, placing them in fourth place out of the 5A-1 Region II District 7 standings.
According to 247Sports.com, McDonald is ranked as the No. 93 safety in the nation. He has received scholarship offers from Texas Tech, Boston College and others, but committed to Washington State on June 29.
No. 92 Rohon Kazadi
Kazadi, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound safety out of Plano, only appeared in five games during his junior football season. He recorded 14 solo tackles and 29 total tackles.
He received offers from Memphis, Syracuse, Tulsa and others but has yet to come to a commitment decision.
No. 98 Zephen Walker
In 2022, Walker primarily played offense in seven games as a sophomore, completing 10-of-19 passes for 157 yards and rushed for 154 yards and one touchdown.
However, he transitioned to safety fulltime during his junior year at Lewisville. Last season, the 5-foot-11, 180-pound safety recorded 48 tackles and one interception.
Walker has received college offers from Army, Navy, Arkansas State and others, but he committed to the Oregon State Beavers on June 27.
No. 100 Juan-Milleon Aguilar
Aguilar began his varsity debut as a freshman playing snaps on both offense and defense. He caught eight passes for 134 yards and one touchdown while recording 40 tackles, three interceptions and one fumble recovery.
As a Bishop Dunne sophomore in 2022, Aguilar tallied 51 tackles, three interceptions and three fumble recoveries.
During his junior season, however, he aided Dallas Kimball to an 8-3 record and a Texas 5A D-II playoff appearance.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound safety has received scholarship offers from Texas State, Grambling State and others but has yet to make a commitment decision. He posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he will announce his commitment on July 17.
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Top Dallas-area performers in Texas high school football, Week 2
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Below you’ll find the top performances in rushing, receiving and passing from Dallas-area Texas high school football players in Week 2.
Rushing
Player, School, Yards
Moses Adelowo, Denton Braswell, 253
Sterling Schneider, Denton Guyer, 219
Cam Newton, Prosper Walnut Grove, 202
DeAngelo Perales, Garland Naaman Forest, 201
Christian Rhodes, Lake Highlands, 199
Micah Rivers, Northwest Eaton, 197
Travis Agee, Plano East, 191
Javian Osborne, Forney, 187
Kelden Ryan, DeSoto, 175
Watson Bell, Argyle, 170
Legend Bey, North Forney, 169
Rodney Franklin, Mesquite Horn 163
Receiving
Player, School, Yards
Vincent Aparicio, Princeton, 226
Carterrious Brown, Arlington Seguin, 187
Quentin Gibson, North Crowley, 180
Trantan Miles, Arlington Martin, 171
Xavier Green, The Colony, 168
Ryder Treadway, Frisco Wakeland, 162
McKenzie West, Frisco Independence, 159
Paulo Jimenez, South Garland, 158
Samuel Williams, North Garland, 144
Zion Robinson, Mansfield, 139
Tatum Bell, Jr., Frisco Heritage, 132
Trysten Shaw, Mesquite, 130
Passing
Player, School, Yards
Carson Porter, Keller Timber Creek, 350
Jayden Maples, Frisco Wakeland, 330
Marcus Flowers, Princeton, 328
Keelon Russell, Duncanville, 325
Cornell McGee IV, Richardson Berkner, 324
Daylon Brooks, South Grand Prairie, 311
Noah Schuback, Melissa, 310
Jackson Hays, Plano East, 302
Braeden Imhoff, Prosper, 292
Edward Griffin, Coppell, 283
Presley Harper, Richardson Pearce, 278
Ziondre Williams, Anna, 276
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Dallas Cowboys scouting report: Breaking down the Browns offensive scheme
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Just six months ago, Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski was awarded the NFL’s Coach of the Year trophy after leading his team to the playoffs despite starting five different quarterbacks throughout the season. It was Stefanski’s second time winning the award, putting him in a rare category of coaches.
Now, Stefanski will follow up that magical season by hosting the Cowboys in Week 1. This marks a full circle moment for Stefanski, as the head coach and offensive play-caller will be going up against the man who played a pivotal role in his rise to coaching stardom: new Dallas defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer.
Until Stefanski took the Browns head coaching job, the Minnesota Vikings were the only NFL team he had ever worked for. A Philadelphia native, Stefanski played defensive back at Penn, twice being selected to the All-Ivy League team. Upon his graduation, Stefanski spent a year as the assistant director of football operations for his alma mater. Then, at just 24 years old, he joined the Vikings as the assistant to then head coach Brad Childress. Stefanski was later promoted to assistant quarterbacks coach and retained in that role by interim head coach Leslie Frazier, who was named the full time head coach soon after.
When Frazier was ultimately fired, though, Zimmer was brought in to lead the franchise next. Zimmer made sweeping changes to the Vikings, but he opted to retain Stefanski and, in fact, promote him to tight ends coach. Two years later, Stefanski moved to the running backs room. A year later, he was the quarterbacks coach. And in 2018, when Zimmer fired offensive coordinator John DeFillippo halfway through the season, he turned to Stefanski as his interim coordinator.
The offense stabilized under Stefanski’s watch and, more importantly, Stefanski operated the run-first approach that Zimmer wanted. So Zimmer named Stefanski the full time offensive coordinator moving forward, bringing in coaching veteran Gary Kubiak as an offensive advisor to mentor Stefanski. A year later, Stefanski left for the top job in Cleveland, where he has a 37-30 record with two postseason appearances.
Stefanski’s story cannot be told without highlighting his history with Zimmer, but it also informs his own schematic preferences. Stefanski has worked under a wide list of offensive minds: Childress was an offshoot of Andy Reid’s West Coast spread offense, as was Bill Musgrave under Frazier; Norv Turner brought his signature Air Coryell offense that helped win two Super Bowls for the Cowboys back in the 90’s; Pat Shurmur offered a more traditional version of the West Coast; and Kubiak led a masterclass in the offense he and Mike Shanahan popularized in the 80’s in Denver, which has since evolved into what Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay are doing that’s taken the league by storm yet again.
It is this final schematic preference that is most prevalent in the Browns’ attack, but to call Stefanski a Shanahan devotee is a little too simplistic. From the top down, things look the same. Stefanski’s offense features plenty of wide zone run plays and lots of play-action with deep crossing routes. But Stefanski has a much more diverse run scheme, which he has pieced together over time from all the different coaches he’s learned under.
You’ll see just about every type of run concept in Cleveland, all of which has been fine-tuned to operate efficiently behind one of the league’s top offensive lines. Nick Chubb has long been the face of Stefanski’s electric rushing attack, but last year tested their ability to still produce without him when Chubb tore his ACL and MCL. The results were a mixed bag: the Browns finished fourth in rushing attempts and were just outside the top 10 in rushing yards for the year, but the efficiency fell quite a bit. Cleveland ranked 25th in yards per carry, 23rd in run DVOA, and 28th in EPA/rush.
Chubb won’t be back for this game – he’s set to miss at least the first four games of the year while on the PUP list – but they’ve bolstered their running back room in preparation for Chubb’s absence. They return Jerome Ford, who ran for 813 yards last year, and also added bruising runner D’Onta Foreman, who tallied 425 rushing yards last year as part of a deep running back rotation in Chicago.
The hope for Cleveland is that the run game gets back to its normal self – top 10 in DVOA in Stefanski’s first three years as head coach – because quarterback Deshaun Watson has struggled mightily in his time as a Brown. Without even discussing the off-field factors for Watson – who has played just 12 games in two years between suspensions and injuries – the quarterback’s play has been severely lacking.
Still, though, Stefanski’s offense is designed to put minimal pressure on the quarterback. Like many other schemes from the Shanahan tree – an offense that Zimmer himself has done well against historically – this scheme aims to give the quarterback layups in the passing game. Having a route running aficionado like Amari Cooper, who will face his former team for the first time since being traded away, also helps.
Now, Stefanski will get a chance to show what he can do against his former boss. He’s faced Zimmer once before: the Browns played the Vikings in 2021, Zimmer’s last season as head coach, and Cleveland won 17-14. A win for Stefanski’s team, but not a banner day for his offense against Zimmer’s defense. The head coach expects a similarly tough challenge for Round 2:
“Preseason obviously is not a great indication for any team in terms of the scheme. Coach Zim, obviously I know really well, is an outstanding football coach so we know that we’ll have our work cut out for us. Personnel wise… they have a bunch of really, really good players from the d-line back through the secondary.”
The Browns should present a similar challenge for Zimmer, too, as the new coordinator aims to beef up a unit that struggled far too often against the run last year. There’s few teams who pose a taller task in that respect, but perhaps Zimmer will be able to pull one over on his former protégé.
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Lakers Sign Former Dallas Mavericks Forward To Add Roster Depth
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The Los Angeles Lakers are shoring up their team ahead of training camp.
The Lakers have re-signed their own former two-way player, forward Alex Fudge, the team announced in a press statement Thursday night.
Although exact terms of the agreement have not been revealed, it appears most likely that the deal is an Exhibit 10 contract. All 15 of the Lakers’ standard roster spots are filled, as are L.A.’s three two-way slots.
The 21-year-old went unselected in the 2023 NBA Draft following two NCAA seasons, first with Louisiana State University in 2021-22, next with the University of Florida in 2022-23. He agreed to a two-way deal with the Lakers, and logged time with L.A.’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, in El Segundo.
Los Angeles waived him after he appeared in just four games for the Lakers proper in January.
Fudge then inked a two-way deal for two seasons with the Dallas Mavericks in March. He suited up for just two games with Dallas. Because his contract wasn’t converted into a standard deal prior to the 2024 playoffs, Fudge did not get to suit up for any of the Mavericks’ games during the team’s run to the 2024 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.
Across 33 Showcase Cup and regular season games with the South Bay Lakers and the Mavericks’ NBAGL squad, the Texas Legends, the 6-foot-8 forward averaged 8.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks across 18.5 minutes of action. He scored a career-most 18 points while with the South Bay Lakers in a December 2 matchup against the Utah Jazz’s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars.
During Summer League this year, Fudge played for Dallas once again, although it appears the Mavericks ultimately opted not to sign him to a training camp agreement. In five games with the Summer League Mavericks, he averaged 4.6 points on 37.9 percent field goal shooting, 3.2 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 0.6 steals a night.
Beyond L.A.’s established standard and two-way contracts, Fudge will join previously-announced Exhibit 10 signings Kylor Kelley and Quincy Olivari, along with reported training camp players Sean East and Jordan Goodwin. All will no doubt be hoping to become affiliate players with South Bay. Any Exhibit 10 signing who is waived ahead of the season and latches on with that team’s affiliate NBAGL club becomes eligible after 60 days for a signing bonus, worth up to $77,500 this year.
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