Perhaps no person inside Folsom Field basked in the glow that radiated off Jackson on Saturday more than K.D. Nixon. The two players, both members of CU’s 2017 recruiting class, grew up 10 minutes apart outside Dallas. Before both of them became the rare freshman to play at big-time high schools in the area as freshmen, they were competing as elementary school kids every chance they had.
“Man, me and Jaylon Jackson ran Texas,” Nixon said. “You can go ask people at DeSoto and Cedar Hill. We was the only people on varsity freshman year, only people who was killin’ it sophomore year. Jaylon won state his sophomore year, had a big game (in the championship game). We take pride in that. Me and Jaylon have competed our whole lives against each other. That’s why I went to DeSoto, so we could battle each other and make each other better.”