Inside the high school game that turned Jaxson Dart into a star: ‘We gotta get this dude’ By Howie Kussoy Published Sep. 4, 2026, 3:00 p.m. ET Jaxson Dart runs with the football while playing quarterback for Corner Canyon High School in 2020. Courtesy of the Dart family Jaxson Dart couldn’t stop crying.
He didn’t want to leave home. He didn’t want to change schools before his senior year of high school. He didn’t want to abandon his team.
But an opportunity was interpreted as an obligation.
Dart first took the reins at Roy High School in suburban Salt Lake City as a 5-foot-11, 170-pound freshman, who beat out a senior transfer expecting to be handed the job. His coach, Fred Fernandes, had seen similarly well-founded swagger decades earlier, as the former teammate of a future Super Bowl champion (Jim McMahon).
