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Corner Canyon’s Jaxson Dart Announced As Finalist For Gatorade Player Of The Year

May 13, 2021, 2:04 PM

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Corner Canyon quarterback Jaxson Dart (2) throws a pass between Jackson Light (74) and Dylan Carlsen (30) during a 6A quarterfinal football game against Bingham at Corner Canyon High School in Draper on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Corner Canyon won 57-22. (Courtesy of Deseret News)

(Courtesy of Deseret News)

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Gatorade announced the finalists for their Player of The Year Award and local star Jaxson Dart of Corner Canyon was on the list.

Dart made the list of three finalists for one of the most prestigious awards a high school football player can get. The other nominees were Brock Vandagriff from Georgia (committed to the University of Georgia) and Malachi Nelson from California.

Dart is committed to the University of Southern California. He chose USC over Arizona State, BYU, and UCLA.

The Chargers star rose from off-the-radar recruit to one of the nation’s top quarterbacks in the class of 2021 after leading Corner Canyon to an undefeated 14-0 state championship season.

Jaxson Dart at Corner Canyon

During his undefeated 14-game run with the Chargers, Dart set a Utah High School Football single-season record for most touchdown passes with 67. He finished the 2020 season with 4,691 yards, good for 335.1 yards per game and a 146.9 QB rate.

BYU was the first college to offer Dart last summer when he was a relatively unknown prospect at Roy High School. After a nationally televised performance against Bingham last August, Dart’s interest from Power 5 schools started to roll in as Arizona State, USC, and UCLA all came into the picture for the No. 103 ranked national prospect in the 247Sports Composite rankings.

Dart, the son of former Utah defensive back Brandon Dart, is the highest-rated quarterback prospect to come from Utah since Cottonwood’s Cooper Bateman signed with Alabama in the 2013 recruiting class.

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