DeSoto Football: 3 Texas State Titles in 4 Years | Presented by Nike

DeSoto has won four state championships, three of them in the last four years, and sent 13 players to the NFL Draft since 2001. Head coach Claude Mathis doesn't call it a team. He calls it a program. This is DeSoto football: the city, the community, and the standard a group of teenagers in South Dallas carries every fall. The pipeline runs from Jalen Mills to Byron Murphy II, and it keeps producing. DeSoto Eagles | DeSoto, Texas 4 state titles (2016, 2022, 2023, 2025) · 3 in the last 4 years · 13 NFL Draft picks since 2001 Heart of the Program is a four-part series from MaxPreps and Nike featuring DeSoto (TX), St. Thomas Aquinas (FL), Massillon Washington (OH) and Duncanville (TX).