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SIGNING DAY CENTRAL: Malatesta's Houston Hot 100
Two days before the Early Signing Day for college football, it's chaos.
With college coaches moving around a violent job carousel, some high school prospects are getting caught up in the wash. Time waits for no one, so let’s see where Houston's best will be playing their college ball... for now.
VYPE's HOT 100
No. 1 Conner Weigman, Bridgeland, QB, Texas A&M
No. 2 Denver Harris, North Shore, DB
No. 3 Harold Perkins, Cy Park, Athlete
No. 4 Kelvin Banks, Summer Creek, OL, Texas
No. 5 Kameron Dewberry, Atascocita, OL
No. 6 Kris Ross, North Shore, DT, Texas
No. 7 Chris Marshall, FB Marshall, WR, Texas A&M
No. 8 Malick Sylla, Katy, DE, Texas A&M
No. 9 Donovan Green, Dickinson, TE, Texas A&M
No. 10 Matthew Golden, Klein Cain, WR
No. 11 Dillon Bell, Kinkaid, WR, Georgia
No. 12 Julian Humphrey, Clear Lake, DB, Georgia
No. 13 Martrell Harris, The Woodlands, LB, Texas A&M
No. 14 Noah Thomas, Clear Springs, WR, Texas A&M
No. 15 AJ Holmes, Westfield, DT
No. 16 PJ Williams, Dickinson, OL, Texas A&M
No. 17 Caleb Douglas, Hightower, WR
No. 18 Nicholas Anderson, Katy, WR, Oklahoma
No. 19 Ty Kana, Katy, LB, Texas Tech
No. 20 Jaydon Blue, Klein Cain, RB, Texas (foregoes senior season)
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No. 21 Justin Medlock, Manvel, LB
No. 22 Bobby Taylor, Katy, DB, Texas A&M
No. 23 Quardale Patt, Stafford, DT, Houston
No. 24 Gerrod Henderson, Spring, DT
No. 25 Dylan Dixson, Pearland, S, Colorado
No. 26 Timi Gagophien, Hastings, OL, Ole Miss
No. 27 Bishop Davenport, Spring, QB, Utah State
No. 28 Marcus Scott II, Conroe, DB, Missouri
No. 29 Joshua Wiggins, Klein Oak, DB, Colorado
No. 30 Owen Pewee, Cy Park, LB, UTSA
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No. 31 Collin Wright, Manvel, S, Stanford
No. 32 Bryce Simpson, Cy Ranch, OL, Baylor
No. 33 Tyler King, Alief Taylor, WR, Texas Tech
No. 34 Carter Brown, Dawson, K, Arizona State
No. 35 Bert Emanuel Jr., Ridge Point, QB
No. 36 Kaden Sieracki, The Woodlands, OL, Baylor
No. 37 Tai Leonard, North Shore, DE
No. 38 Tevin Shaw, Manvel, OL, Houston
No. 39 JP Deeter, Manvel, DT, Purdue
No. 40 Cale Hellums, Tomball, QB, Army
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No. 41 Trudell Berry, Baytown Lee, WR, Vanderbilt
No. 42 Cody Mladenka, College Park, TE, Baylor
No. 43 Logan Tanner, St. Pius X, TE, San Diego State
No. 44 Cardell Williams, Westfield, QB, Tulsa
No. 45 Dorian Friend, Spring, DB
No. 46 Keith Wheeler, Atascocita, WR, Tulsa
No. 47 Calvin Harvey, Ridge Point, OL, Oklahoma State
No. 48 Christian Williams, FB Marshall, OL, Louisiana Lafayette
No. 49 Jhalyn Bailey, North Shore, WR
No. 50 Kivon Wright, Manvel, DE, Boston College
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No. 51 Colby McCalister, Clear Brook, DB, Kansas State
No. 52 Chase Sowell, Atascocita, WR
No. 53 Randy Masters, Yates, WR, UNLV
No. 54 Chibby Nwajuaku, Cy Ranch, DT, Rice
No. 55 Jaydon Johnson, FB Marshall, WR, ULL
No. 56 Reece Sylvester, Baytown, DB, Rice
No. 57 Bra’lon Jones, Spring, LB
No. 58 Bryce Grays, FBCA, DB, Washington State
No. 59 Van Wells, CE King, OL
No. 60 Sean Dubose Jr., Tompkins, DE, New Mexico
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No. 61 Jacobe Chester, FB Marshall, DB, Sam Houston
No. 62 Landon Roaten, Tomball, OL, Tulsa
No. 63 Thomas Jewett, Strake Jesuit, TE, Sam Houston State
No. 64 Jeffrey Ugo, George Ranch, DB
No. 65 Adari Haulcy, FB Marshall, DB, New Mexico
No. 66 Ben Ferguson, The Woodlands, WR
No. 67 Travis Bates, Tomball, DT, Colorado State
No. 68 Terrance Cullivan, Bridgeland, DB, Air Force
No. 69 Camron Cooper, Dayton, DT
No. 70 Jacoby Brass, North Shore, DT
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No. 71 DeJuan Lewis, Shadow Creek, LB
No. 72 Eli Smith, Second Baptist, RB, Villanova
No. 73 Demone Green, Heights, DL
No. 74 Jerrell Wimbley, CE King, RB, SFA
No. 75 Kendrell Webb, Paetow, DB
No. 76 Isaiah Bogerty, Stafford, DE
No. 77 De’Monte Seymore, Manvel, RB, Central Arkansas
No. 78 Ky Woods, Clear Springs, RB
No. 79 David Oke, Hastings, DL
No. 80 CJ Dumas, Paetow, QB
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No. 81 Dorian Gates, Klein Oak, DT
No. 82 Brooke Honore Jr., Manvel, P/WR
No. 83 Austin Yeager, Foster, OL, Incarnate Word
No. 84 Duke Leonard, Cy Woods, OL, Fordham
No. 85 Hayden Jansky, Magnolia West, DT
No. 86 Demetrius Strahan, Crosby, OL, Incarnate Word
No. 87 Kent Battle, North Shore, LB
No. 88 Cameron Gray, Dobie, Athlete
No. 89 Jaiden Robertson, Dekaney, DB
No. 90 Corey Flagg, North Shore, DB
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No. 91 Tyler Lee, Tomball, OL, Army
No. 92 Jake Ferree, Clear Springs, DE
No. 93 Kentrell Mason, Humble, OL
No. 94 Jalen Morrison, Heights, QB
No. 95 Jake Sock, Pearland, QB
No. 96 Michael McBride, Clear Springs, LB
No. 97 Everett Skillern, Second Baptist, LB, Brown
No. 98 McCoy Casey, Crosby, DE
No. 99 Jacob Brown, Paetow, RB
No. 100 Luke Roaten, Tomball, DL
LISTEN UP: Next on the Endangered Species' List? 5-Star Athletes
From the dinosaurs to Blockbuster video, things just become extinct.
Home telephones? Heck, cable television has virtually ran its course.
So, what is next on the endangered species' list?
The 5-Star Athlete will be extinct in a matter of months.
Football's Big-Ticket, Game-Breakers will be a thing of the past in 2022. No, not a meteor shower or the advent of new technology, but the ruling of Name, Imagine and Likeness, where college athletes can cash in on themselves where they see fit.
Great, cool, awesome. Long overdue for college athletes, but the NCAA has made the roll-out messier than an LA Freeway virtually any time of day.
The repercussions of NIL have seeped into high school sports as I've predicted.
This is basically Global Warming for high school athletics. There won't be a slow erosion of superstars leaving the locker rooms and weight rooms across Texas, but an avalanche of Blue Chip athletes falling into the abyss of NIL. SPLASH.
Southlake Carroll's Quin Ewers was first to test the waters, bringing this topic to the UIL, which deferred to the Texas Legislature. Ok, cool. Their hands are tied, I get it.
Ewers couldn't get paid in high school, so off to Ohio State and greener artificial turf pastures await him.
He was the No. 1 player in Texas. Poof… gone.
Hightower super-hooper and senior-to-be Bryce Griggs couldn't make money as a high school student… poof off to Overtime Elite where he will get paid… we think. No more Hurricane state title dreams as H-Town is in his rearview mirror.
FB Bush junior Tyler Smith gets a national-ranking and… bye, off to Overtime Elite. He will forego TWO years of making memories inside the Hopson Field House. He just would have been a junior.
While Klein Cain star Jaydon Blue's circumstance is a little different, highly-coveted athletes will follow his lead. Blue committed to the University of Texas and has chosen to by-pass his senior year to prepare for his future as a Longhorn. He should be an early-enrollee in January.
Those are the outliers right now, however, they are also the pioneers that so many will follow.
For now high school fans, enjoy the likes of Bridgeland's Conner Weigman -- an Elite 11 QB -- still weaving his magic at the high school level before he early enrolls with the Aggies in January.
If North Shore 5-Star Denver Harris (currently the No. 1 player in Texas) comes back from an ACL injury to play ball this year, he certainly be the last of his kind. Big-time stones if he does come back.
The Bishop Davenport's of Spring, Harold Perkins' of Cy Park and Kam Dewberry's of Atascocita – all extinct in the near future.
So, what stops this disappearance of future stars?
Open up the NIL floodgates in Texas. It will be messy at first, but order will follow.
It gives the optics of a level playing field to all athletes… not just football, basketball and baseball stars but also female student-athletes. They usually get left out of this conversation all together.
Do you think Lululemon wouldn't sponsor Ally Batenhorst of Seven Lakes, the National Gatorade Volleyball Player of the Year? What about former Barbers Hill star Charli Collier being an ambassador for who else… Charming Charlies?
This could be a slippery slope, but it can't be any worse than the alternative.