Unsung Hero: Ayrton Hignojos

He's one of Texas high school football's physical marvels, despite missing one arm.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. Leander Glenn football player Ayrton Hignojos who plays football for the Grizzlies despite not having a left arm, has never thought that he couldn’t do something.

Hignojos grew up watching football with his father Salvador. At the age of two, Salvador began taking his son to games and thus began the start of his inspiration to play football.

“He would cry a lot as a baby but it was amazing when I would take him to football games he was silent,” Salvador Hignojos said. “He would be so focused and intrigued by the game that was going on.”

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