Memphis Whitehaven head football coach Rodney Saulsberry will lead his team out for Saturday’s season opener with Memphis Hamilton with arguably the nation’s best high school linebacking group.
Arkansas commit Tarvarius French (6-2, 240, 4.7), Razorback target Bryson Eason (6-3, 250, 4.6) and Mississippi State safety pledge Tamarion McDonald (6-2, 220) — who wear the numbers 1, 2 and 3 — are all high major Division I prospects that led Whitehaven to a Class 6A runner-up finish last season.
French and Eason, two four-star prospects 24/7 ranks as the nation’s 10th and 14th-best linebackers, respectively, are the only high school teammates named to the Butkas Award list for the nation’s top prep linebacker.