Some football players arrive with a press release. Others arrive five games at a time and let the tackles-for-loss do the talking. Khalen Taylor is the second kind. As a freshman at Ridge Point in 2024, he played five varsity games. In them he made 3.5 tackles for loss and a sack. Most freshmen that age are still learning where the locker room is. Taylor was learning where the quarterback was. Then came 2025, and the numbers stopped being a curiosity and became a case. Over 12 games as a sophomore, he finished with 38 tackles, seven for loss, four sacks, and a strip sack. He also broke up…
A Hometown Linebacker Who Has Heard the Calls and Knows the Way Home
Ridge Point's Khalen Taylor returns to TDECU with Notre Dame, Penn State and Texas in his inbox. Houston has been there since the ninth grade.
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