BRENHAM — As a first year starter under center, Rylan Wooten isn’t trying to prove anything to anyone, mostly himself, instead playing the game that he’s learned to love since he was a youth.
A senior and in his only year at quarterback, so far Wooten has been wowing quite a few fans in the stands with his Houdini type of elusiveness.
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