Hidden Recruiting Gems: Flour Bluff's Kadon Luke and Javaris Lawson

Some of the best football stories start with a kid without many stars to his name. We set out to find the state's best under-recruited players and give them the spotlight they deserve.

After going 10-2 and making it to the third round of the playoffs, one would think that Flour Bluff’s best players would be getting some recruiting attention. However, two of the teams’ staples on a defense that allowed just an average of 16.5 points per game in district play, Kadon Luke and Javaris Lawson, haven’t seen much college interest at all. Luke received his first collegiate offer last week and Lawson’s offer list remains blank.

Luke, one of the top players that Flour Bluff safeties coach Lester Johnson says he has ever coached, is a ferocious free safety and projects as a nickelback at the collegiate level. The First-Team All-South Texas selection finished the season with 85 tackles, four interceptions, and four forced fumbles.

Johnson says that Luke resembles Drew Coleman, a player who he played with when he was in high school that eventually played defensive back at TCU and five seasons in the NFL.

“Everything that he does is like ‘wow,” Johnson said. “Physically he reminds me of him [Coleman] so much the way he is so fast in and out of breaks in every single drill. Not just in some drills but every single drill.”

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