Serra linebacker is next elite recruit from SoCal powerhouse.
Last season,
Serra (Gardena, Calif.) senior Dwight Williams posted a whopping 91 tackles before eventually signing with UCLA. Incredibly, he may not even have been the best linebacker on the Cavaliers squad.
John Houston, Serra
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That's because
John Houston, then only a junior, tallied 137 total tackles and broke up nine passes.
The 6-foot-3, 218-pound blue-chip recruit is back for his senior season playing for head coach Scott Altenberg at Serra, and he's picking up right where he left off.
Click here to see the rest of our Get 2 The Game FeaturesHouston has been a tackling machine. In five games, he's already made 66 tackles and forced three fumbles.
Two of those fumbles came in the team's only loss of the season, against Washington power Bellevue.
"He's a freak of nature," Altenberg
told MaxPreps leading up to the game, regarding Houston.
247Sports ranks Houston as the
No. 33 recruit in the country, and the No. 3 player at the outside linebacker position.
The 247Sports Crystal Ball predicts Houston to follow in the footsteps of many other elite Serra recruits by landing at USC.
