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The 2025 UFL season kicks off Friday night and there are a whole bunch of former five-stars in the league this year. Here are our memories of those players from their high school days.
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Zach Banner – Houston Roughnecks
Ranked as the second-best offensive tackle in the 2012 class and behind only DJ Humphries, Banner was massive at 6-foot-8 and 335 pounds and the biological son of Lincoln Kennedy. He eventually chose USC over Oklahoma and Washington and then played both right and left tackle for the Trojans.
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Banner ended up as a fourth-round NFL Draft pick but bounded around the league for a couple years before finding a role with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 2022, Banner was released by the Steelers but has now made his return in the UFL.
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Deon Cain – Birmingham Stallions
In the spring prior to his senior season, the Tampa (Fla.) Tampa Bay Tech five-star receiver chose Clemson over Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Miami. Florida did not stop recruiting Cain and he also visited Auburn among others but stuck with Clemson.
The five-star had 130 catches with more than 2,000 receiving yards and 20 touchdowns in three seasons in Clemson but also missed time because of a failed drug test and then went in the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
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But Cain only had nine career receptions in the NFL and is now in…
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