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Allen adds quarterback who has an offer from Ohio State, plus other notable D-FW transfers

State champion North Crowley added one of the top wide receivers in the nation, as well as a quarterback who took his team to the playoffs last year.

There have been several notable transfers in high school football this offseason. The list includes two players who could potentially help North Crowley win a second straight state title, as well as a star quarterback who is transferring to Allen.

Here is a breakdown.

Quarterback Ty Snell

Snell, who will be a freshman this fall, announced on X on Tuesday that he will be leaving Lipscomb Academy in Tennessee and transferring to five-time state champion Allen. This could be a huge transfer, as he already lists 12 college offers, including defending national champion Ohio State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.

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Snell says on his X page that he played five high school varsity games as an eighth-grader, completing 66% of his passes and throwing for 893 yards and four touchdowns, with no interceptions. Allen has to replace District 6-6A MVP Brady Bricker, who threw for 2,396 yards and 26 touchdowns and ran for seven scores as a senior for a 13-1 team that reached the Class 6A Division I Region I final.

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Wide receiver Damarion Mays

One of the top wide receivers in the nation in the Class of 2028 transferred from Life Oak Cliff to North Crowley after catching 68 passes for 1,640 yards and 14 touchdowns as a freshman. He was named a MaxPreps second-team freshman All-American and already lists 28 college offers, including defending national champion Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Arizona State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, SMU, Miami and Missouri.

Mays could fill the hole left by the graduation of MaxPreps National Player of the Year and Under Armour All-American Quentin Gibson. Gibson, a Colorado signee, led North Crowley to a 16-0 record and Class 6A Division I state title, as he had 93 catches for 2,009 yards and 36 touchdowns and broke the Dallas-area record for most touchdowns catches in a season while recording the fourth most in state history.

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North Crowley lost its top three receivers from last year’s team, as Kevin Moore and Cam Hunter also graduated after combining for 52 catches for 1,007 yards and 12 touchdowns. A pair of FBS running backs are also gone, as North Crowley lost Arizona signee Cornelius Warren III and Utah signee Daniel Bray after they combined to run for 2,396 yards and 32 touchdowns.

Quarterback Jacob Torres

Torres, who will be a junior, transferred from Burleson Centennial to North Crowley and gives the defending 6A Division I state champion a possible replacement for first-team All-Area quarterback Chris Jimerson Jr.

Jimerson, a North Texas signee, was named a MaxPreps second-team All-American after throwing for 3,769 yards and 58 touchdowns and running for 777 yards and six scores as a senior for a North Crowley team that finished third in the MaxPreps national rankings. Torres was the co-offensive newcomer of the year in District 7-5A Division I last year after leading Burleson Centennial to the playoffs.

Torres was at North Crowley as a freshman before transferring to Burleson Centennial. He said his family moved back to Crowley after their house was struck by lightning and burned.

Torres said he has been taking snaps with the first-team unit at North Crowley and was the only quarterback who threw for the school at the SMU and Texas A&M 7-on-7 tournaments.

Linebacker Jaden Parker

The three-star linebacker, who is committed to Arizona, has transferred to Anna for his senior year after previously attending Wichita (Kan.) Collegiate School. Parker is rated the 69th-best linebacker in the nation in the Class of 2026, and he is the No. 5 linebacker and 70th-ranked overall recruit in The Dallas Morning News area Top 100.

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Parker had 71 tackles, 13 tackles for loss, four sacks and two interceptions as a junior and also ran for 385 yards and nine touchdowns. He joins an Anna program that won the Class 4A Division I state title in 2023 and was 9-4 as a 5A Division II school last year.

Wide receiver Ty Crethers

The three-star SMU pledge is back at Garland, where he played his sophomore year. He transferred to Skyline as a junior but had to play on the JV because of transfer rules.

Crethers is rated the 17th-best wide receiver in the Dallas area in the Class of 2026.

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Quarterback Brett Holloway

He has transferred from Allen to Melissa for his senior year, and the plan is for him to be Melissa’s starting quarterback. He is a versatile athlete who can play multiple positions, and while he threw only two passes last season, he had 22 catches for 199 yards and a touchdown and ran for 328 yards and three scores.

Holloway posted on social media that he had received an offer from North Texas.

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