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5-star Alabama commit throws 6 TDs in Texas high school football game

Kalen DeBoer was on sidelines to watch Duncanville's Keelon Russell continue dominant season in blowout of Skyline

Andy Buhler

Duncanville 5-star Alabama commit Keelon Russell unleashed a throw against St. Frances Academy on Sept 14, 2024 at Duncanville ISD Stadium.
Duncanville 5-star Alabama commit Keelon Russell unleashed a throw against St. Frances Academy on Sept 14, 2024 at Duncanville ISD Stadium. / Photo by Michael Horbovetz, SBLive

Four games into his senior high school football season, Keelon Russell surpassed the 1,000-yard passing mark in style.

The 5-star Alabama commit helped Duncanville open Texas high school football district play in utter dominant fashion, tossing six touchdowns to lead the nationally ranked Panthers to a 63-14 win over Skyline on Friday night.

Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer was on the sidelines to see one of his prized 2025 commits in person the night before the Crimson Tide played Georgia in Tuscaloosa.

Russell entered the Week 5 matchup coming off of a performance in which he hit 27 of 32 targets for 474 yards and five touchdowns.

Waxahachie scored the first touchdown to take a 7-0 lead, but the Panthers quickly responded when Russell hit track star Ayson Theus, who hauled 64 yards for a touchdown and the Panthers were off from there.

Russell had amassed more than 200 passing yards by the early second quarter, and hit Zachery Turner for a 15-yard scoring strike to reclaim a 21-14 lead with 7:00 left in the first half.

The pair connected again for a 13-yard touchdown to cap a four-play, 74-yard drive to send the Panthers into the half up 35-14.

Russell hit Theus for two more touchdown passes early in the third quarter — the second a 30-yard connection — and he hit Turner on a corner route late in the third to give Duncanville a 56-14 lead.

Duncanville is the No. 4 ranked team in the country and the No. 1 team in Texas.

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ANDY BUHLER

Andy Buhler is a Regional Editor of Texas and the national breaking news desk. He brings more than five years of experience covering high school sports across the state of Washington and beyond, where he covered the likes of Paolo Banchero and Tari Eason served on state tournament seeding committees. He works on the SBLive/Sports Illustrated Power 25 national boys basketball rankings. He has covered everything from the Final Four, MLS in Atlanta to local velodrome before diving into the world of preps. His bylines can be found in The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), The Associated Press, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), The Oregonian and more. He holds a degree from Gonzaga and is based out of Portland, Oregon.

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