Scouting KJ Lacey at the State Finals

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Texas fans were pleasantly surprised over the weekend when Steve Sarkisian locked up a quarterback for the 2025 class in K.J. Lacey. The young Alabaman is immediately drawing a lot of comparisons to Bryce Young, whom Sark recruited to Alabama but only coached for a year as Mac Jones' back-up before departing for Texas. Lacey is coming off a breakout sophomore season in which he helped lead Saraland High School to a 14-1 record in which their sole loss was a 27-26 defeat against Theodore they avenged in the playoffs 21-6. Having known as little or less about Lacey before the weekend as anyone else, I took the chance to watch his State Championship performance, a 38-17 victory over Mountain Brook, to get a closer look at the young signal-caller.