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Isaac Wilson, the little brother of New York Jets starting QB Zach Wilson, ended his HS career in dominating style

Isaac Wilson, the younger brother of New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson, sparkled in the state championships.

Isaac Wilson answered a lot of critics over the past two weeks, with 993 yards of total offense to lead his team to a championship in Utah.

A four-star quarterback and a Utah commit, Wilson led Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah) on Friday night to a 41-27 win over Skyridge (Lehi, Utah). The state championship caps off a season where Wilson cemented himself as one of the top quarterback prospects in the nation.

ESPN ranks him as the No. 13 quarterback in the country and the second-best player in Utah.

The younger brother of New York Jets starting quarterback Zach Wilson, the performance from Isaac Wilson in the playoffs certainly has him knocking on the door to be the best quarterback in his family.

And since Zach Wilson doesn’t know anything about the playoffs, can’t exactly compare his performance against what his young brother has done over the past couple of games.

Just kidding. Coming into a difficult spot this season, Zach Wilson actually has the Jets (4-5) in playoff contention. It wouldn’t be a shock to see ‘Gang Green’ in the playoffs here this season.

The Jets could make some noise in the second half of the season and make a playoff push for sure.

Back to Isaac Wilson, his senior year was simply outstanding. He came into the final game of his high school career with 4,322 passing yards with 47 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Check out some of the plays that Isaac Wilson made to lead Corner Canyon to an impressive state title:

 

 

Corner Canyon finished the year 13-1. They are a team ‘on the rise’ in the USA TODAY High School Sports Super 25.

National shakeup: Bishop Gorman crushes Corner Canyon in battle of powerhouse teams

High School Football: Bishop Gorman crushes Corner Canyon

In their first game of the season, Corner Canyon (Utah) rolled over Herriman (Utah) and quarterback Isaac Wilson threw for 450 yards and six touchdowns en route to an easy 45-7 victory. This past Friday, however, it was a different story for the Chargers as they faced a superior opponent.

Visiting national powerhouse Bishop Gorman (Nev.), the dynamic was flipped and they were dominated by a score of 42-7. This time around, Wilson only managed to complete 8 of 18 passes for 67 yards, one score and two interceptions.

On the other side, lefty junior quarterback Micah Alejado got off to a hot start, completing his first 11 passing attempts. In the end, he threw three touchdown passes and ran for another.

His last score was a 43-yard bomb to Dylan Herman in the middle of the third quarter.

Defensively, senior cornerback Elijah Palmer led the way for Bishop Gorman with a pick-six. The other pick came courtesy of Jeremiah Hughes.

Next up, Corner Canyon will visit Bingham (Utah), while Bishop Gorman hosts the top-ranked team in the country, Mater Dei (Calif.).

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High School Football Highlights: Isaac Wilson’s off-platform touchdown pass 1 of 6

Wilson went 21/30 for 450 yards and six touchdown passes.

Some High School Football programs got a head start to the year, playing their first games of the 2022 season this past Friday night.

There are still a lot of great quarterbacks that have yet to make their debut. For now, one standout worth mentioning is Isaac Wilson from Corner Canyon (Utah) – who put up some video game numbers in the Chargers’ dominant 45-7 win over Herriman (Utah).

Wilson went 21/30 for 450 yards and six touchdown passes, including this off-platform beauty.

Wilson (5-foot-11, 166 pounds) is a four-star recruit from the class of 2024 that is as yet uncommitted. He has nine offers so far, including BYU, Arizona, Idaho State, Miami, Oregon, Oregon State, San Diego State, San Jose State and Weber State.

Wilson’s older brother Zach played his college ball at BYU and is now the starting quarterback for the New York Jets. Unfortunately, the elder Wilson suffered a knee injury in his team’s first preseason game and is expected to miss the next few weeks.

As for Isaac, next on the schedule for Corner Canyon is a road game against Bishop Gorman (N.V.) — another team that is no stranger to the USA TODAY Sports Super 25.

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No. 14 Corner Canyon’s win streak ends at 48

Corner Canyon has lost its first game in over 1,400 days.

Corner Canyon entered its Friday night matchup with Lone Peak one game away from breaking Duchesne’s Utah state record of 48 straight wins.

Instead of etching its name into Utah high school football lore, the No. 13 team in the USA TODAY Super 25 had its winning streak snapped in a resounding fashion. Lone Peak outrushed Corner Canyon 277-25 and chewed up plenty of clock en route to a 41-16 victory.

Corner Canyon got on the board first with a field goal in the first quarter, but that would be its only lead of the game. Lone Peak dominated from that point on. Corner Canyon senior quarterback and USC commit Devin Brown threw two touchdown passes, but it was too little, too late for the Chargers.

Corner Canyon’s last loss came against Skyridge High School on Nov. 9, 2017, in the Utah Class 5A playoffs. Corner Canyon led Skyridge 26-13 at halftime in that game, but mustered just one touchdown in the second half as Skyridge stormed back for a 34-33 win.

Corner Canyon has been the premier program in Utah since its loss to Skyridge and entered Friday night outscoring its opponents 433-135 on the season. Corner Canyon’s last double-digit loss came against Alta High School on Oct. 23, 2015.

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USC commit Devin Brown tosses 8 touchdowns in Corner Canyon debut

Devin Brown made it abundantly clear that he is Corner Canyon’s next elite quarterback in the Chargers’ season opener on Friday night.

Devin Brown made it abundantly clear to everyone who follows Utah high school football that he is Corner Canyon’s next elite quarterback in the Chargers’ season opener on Friday night.

Brown, who played last season at Queen Creek High School in Arizona, tossed eight touchdown passes — four in the first and second quarters — in his Corner Canyon debut, a dominant 72-21 win over Farmington High School for the program’s 41st straight win. Brown did not take a single snap in the second half of Corner Canyon’s blowout victory, as the Chargers led 65-14 at halftime.

Brown’s eight touchdown passes in a single game tie the record for third-most in Utah state history. Former Lehi High School star Cammon Cooper holds the record with 10.

Brown, a USC commit, helped his stock tremendously during the summer, impressing at the Elite 11 finals. Brown is the No. 11 quarterback in the class of 2022, according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite Rankings.

Corner Canyon will likely be ranked when USA Today debuts its Super 25 high school football rankings. The Chargers are 52-1 since head coach Eric Kjar took over the program in 2017 and are in search of their fourth straight state championship. Next up on Corner Canyon’s schedule is East High School on Aug. 21.

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2021 QB Jaxson Dart fires 7 touchdown passes in dominant No. 10 Corner Canyon win

No. 10 Corner Canyon quarterback Jaxson Dart fired seven touchdown passes in a 56-17 No. 10 Corner Canyon win on Friday night.

Corner Canyon High School, ranked No. 10 in USA Today’s Super 25, has dominated the high school football scene in Utah this season, defeating opponents by an average margin of 34.25 points per game.

A big reason why is senior quarterback Jaxson Dart, whose ability was on full display in Corner Canyon’s 56-17 win over Westlake High School on Friday night. In only two and a half quarters of action, Dart tossed seven touchdown passes, breaking Corner Canyon’s program record for touchdown passes in a single game.

Dart holds offers from Arizona State, BYU, Fordham, Iowa State, Louisiana, UPenn, TCU, UCLA, Utah State and Yale. The Utah legacy’s 247Sports Crystal Ball currently reads 100% in favor of BYU, where former Corner Canyon quarterback Zach Wilson starts.

Texas football’s coaching re-set could save Tom Herman’s job, but it may cost him recruits first

Tom Herman’s decision to oust all three of the coordinators he brought in to Austin will dramatically re-shape the Texas coaching ranks and system, but will it negatively impact the team’s recruiting efforts?

Tom Herman was the big actor on college football’s Black Sunday, firing his defensive coordinator and one of his offensive coordinators while demoting the other. It only took a matter of hours for that move to have its first trickle down impact, sparking a decommitment from a four-star defensive lineman.

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Van Fillinger, a four-star defensive end from Corner Canyon High School (Draper, Utah) announced he was decommitting from Texas. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound All American Bowl player made his decision public shortly after word of Orlando’s firing became public.

Fillinger’s decommitment was the first domino to fall after Herman’s Bloody Sunday took out all three of the coordinators he hired when he arrived in Austin. While there may have been philosophical reasons behind their dismissal, there’s little question that Texas’ lackluster, 7-5 2019 regular season played a significant role in Herman’s decision to move on.

That could ultimately rejuvenate both Texas’ recruiting efforts and game planning on both sides of the ball, but in the immediate aftermath of the decision it threatens to undermine Texas’ Class of 2020. Despite four decommitments from the class since mid-October alone (the same number as Florida State, which actually fired its head coach), Texas’ class is still ranked among the nation’s top-10, with a chance to move back into the top-5 should the Longhorns close on a handful of key recruits.

Of course, all that assumes Texas is able to hold on to the pledges it currently has. Whether that’s easier or harder to do with virtually an entirely new coaching staff remains to be seen, but Herman apparently felt the program had to take that chance.