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Texas LBs Consider Themselves Super Heroes, Each Hold UW Offers

Brandon Jones and JJ Shelton are Superman and Batman.

Dan Raley

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They refer to themselves as Superman and Batman, as a pair of super heroes for the South Oak Cliff High School football team in Dallas.

Brandon Jones and Jayden "JJ" Shelton are a matching pair of linebackers for the two-time defending 5A Texas state-champion Golden Bears.

They're both 6-foot-1, with Shelton 10 pounds heavier at 200.

They share matching scholarship offers from Arizona State, SMU, Texas Tech and now the University of Washington.

On Monday, Jones and Shelton within minutes revealed on social media that the Huskies had pitched scholarships to each of them.

  

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If there's a difference between these backers, Jones was the down and dirty guy as his team's leading tackler with 199, or 12.4 per game, for South Oak Cliff that had to figure itself out, going from 0-3 to a 13-game win streak and state champs.

In the title game, Jones had a pair of sacks, with one resulting in a safety, in a 34-24 victory over Port Neches-Groves.

Jones generously has referred to his running mate as the best linebacker in the state, and Shelton does carry himself well, no doubt about it.

However, in ranking Texas' best linebackers, TDRecruits selected Jones as the state's No. 4 player in this position group, well ahead of his teammate.

While the Huskies might hope to land one of these guys, a package deal would not be out of the question for Kalen DeBoer's coaching staff.

After all, the UW had no problem handing over scholarships last year to the Parker brothers, Jayvon and Armon, the matching defensive tackles and twins from Detroit.

Texas super heroes have to rate special consideration, too.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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