Football coaches, astatine each levels, volition archer you games are won oregon mislaid successful the trenches connected the violative and antiaircraft lines.
Having an elite furniture connected the antiaircraft enactment tin beryllium the eventual x-factor for immoderate team, and determination are respective of those players successful Southern Nevada.
Here is simply a look astatine the apical 5 returning high schoolhouse football antiaircraft linemen successful Southern Nevada entering the season. (Players are listed successful alphabetical order).
Johnathan Ioane, Liberty
Ioane enactment unneurotic a beardown inferior play successful 2025 portion starring Liberty’s antiaircraft line. Ioane recorded 29 tackles, 13.5 for nonaccomplishment and 7 sacks, helping Liberty spell 9-2, triumph the 5A Lake League rubric and suffice for the Open Division authorities semifinal. Ioane, listed astatine 5-foot-11 and 225 pounds, was a first-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada antiaircraft lineman and first-team 5A Lake League enactment by the coaches.
Tayaun Lawrence, Bishop Gorman
Lawrence is rising arsenic 1 of the area’s apical people of 2028 recruits. As a sophomore past year, helium played successful 7 games and recorded 25 tackles, 9 for loss, 3 sacks and caught a touchdown walk and was an honorable notation connected the Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada team. Lawrence, listed astatine 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds, is simply a four-star enlistee by 247Sports arsenic Nevada’s apical people of 2028 prospect. He is the site’s eighth-ranked antiaircraft lineman and 61st-ranked wide enlistee successful the people nationally. He has 11 Division I offers with notable offers from Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas Tech and Washington.
J’siah Leasau, Bishop Gorman
Leasau made an interaction successful his archetypal afloat play starting connected Gorman’s antiaircraft enactment successful 2025. As a junior, Leasau finished with 65 tackles, 24 for loss, with 8 sacks and 2 forced fumbles portion being named a second-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada antiaircraft lineman portion helping Gorman rotation to the Open Division authorities title and decorativeness ranked No. 2 nationally by MaxPreps. Leasau, listed astatine 6-foot and 290 pounds, has Division I offers from Idaho and Sacramento State.
Colton Richter, Shadow Ridge
After a stellar sophomore play successful 2024, Richter followed up with a beardown inferior play past twelvemonth arsenic helium caught the oculus of respective Division I programs. He recorded 45 tackles, 20 for loss, 7 sacks and six walk deflections successful 11 games past twelvemonth and was a first-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada and 5A Desert League selection. Richter, a three-star people of 2027 enlistee listed astatine 6-foot-3 and 235 pounds, committed to Washington State successful June, choosing the Cougars implicit different notable offers specified arsenic UNLV, Boise State, San Diego State and Fresno State. Richter has recorded 36 tackles for nonaccomplishment and 16 sacks successful his precocious schoolhouse career.
Mike Taylor, Mater East
Taylor played his archetypal 2 precocious schoolhouse seasons astatine Desert Pines, wherever helium proved to beryllium one of the champion antiaircraft ends (and choky ends) successful the city. As a sophomore past year, Taylor posted 29 tackles, 7 for loss, and six sacks successful six games played and was a second-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada enactment and first-team 5A Mountain League antiaircraft extremity by the coaches. Taylor is simply a three-star enlistee and rated arsenic the state’s fifth-ranked people of 2028 recruit. According to 247Sports, Taylor has 25 Division I offers with notable offers from Florida, Missouri, Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington.
Other names to watch: Malua Atualevao, Liberty; Brandon Belyeu, Mater East; Rayshawn Brown, Desert Pines; Caleb Lea’ea, Bishop Gorman; Calvin Lea’ea, Bishop Gorman; Kai Fields, Desert Oasis; Joel Hernandez, Mater East; Roman Pulefaasisina, Sunrise Mountain; Joel Sandoval, Faith Lutheran.
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