What does top-rated five-star Folsom High quarterback Ryder Lyons have to do with former Cougar quarterback Christian Stewart?
Well, very little, if they are never joined at the hip by a BYU quarterback tradition.
Lyons visited BYU last week, cancelling a trip to USC. He is at Oregon this weekend and is ranked among the top three QBs in the class of 2026.
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Before Brian Santiago became BYU’s athletic director, he told Lyons if he came to BYU and succeeded, he would become a legend in Provo. Whereas if he followed in the footsteps of other athletes who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Duke basketball players Jabari Parker and Frank Jackson, for example), his ability to conjure up historic mention would likely never materialize, as with those guys at Duke.
Lyons could announce his college choice this month.
But, what does Stewart have to do with any of this?
Well, part of BYU’s recruiting pitch these days is to enlighten prospects of the power of BYU connections in the business world and ties to famous QB alumni like NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young.
Ryder and his family are very close to Young. So is Stewart.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently did a feature on Stewart, praising his work in leading Sundance Growth, a software-focused investment firm, to a $125 million upper limit debut fund “in one of the more difficult private-equity fundraising markets in recent memory.”
Stewart was a former dealmaker for Accel-KKR. He raised that $125 million in 35 days.
He has been involved in financial trench warfare for the past decade for Raymond James Investment Banking in San Francisco then Accel-KKR in Menlo Park. He became vice president at Accel-KKR…
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