Recruit Video Interview: Kansas OLB Signee Taiwan Berryhill, St. Augustine High School

by Jace LeJeune

We have finished our 23rd annual magazine cover shoot, but this year marked the third straight year in which we have conducted both a North and South photo shoot. This year, we shot the North photo shoot at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and we shot the South photo shoot at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge. Both events were really successful, and we would like to thank everybody who has helped us make both events so special for the players that were involved. Besides taking the photos, Louisiana Football Magazine’s owner Lee Brecheen and editor Jace LeJeune got the chance to talk to some of the top Class of 2020 players in the state of the Louisiana. Both Brecheen and LeJeune talked to the recruits about their top schools, goals for the upcoming season, hobbies, and so much more. For the next couple of months, we will post these video interviews that were taken at both photoshoot events.

In today’s recruit interview, we go to Catholic High School where Lee Brecheen caught up with St. Augustine High School senior linebacker and Kansas signee Taiwan Berryhill before the start of the season!

Taiwan Berryhill: The state of Louisiana has produced a lot of great collegiate and NFL players, but no high school in the state has produced as much talent as St. Augustine High School in New Orleans. Another name that will be added to the school’s incredible and tradition is senior outside linebacker Taiwan Berryhill, who has announced that he will sign with the Kansas Jayhawks back in December. The talented three star prospect was one of the state’s underrated DI signees choosing the Jayhawks over the likes of Arkansas, Colorado State, Indiana, Tennessee, and Memphis, among others. Louisiana Football Magazine’s recruiting expert Lee Brecheen thought that Berryhill did not talked about as much as other defensive prospects in the state. In fact, he put the St. Augustine defender on the front cover of this past year’s South Magazine as well as on the 2nd Team All-South Louisiana Team.

“Taiwan Berryhill is one of many phenomenal players on St. Augustine’s team,” Brecheen said. “It is hard to evaluate them on film because everybody can really play. He can close on ball carriers as good as anybody. It’s scary because it seems everybody on that defense looks and plays like him.”

At 6-2, 210 pounds with 4.5/40 speed, Berryhill can become another defensive star under Les Miles, who has seen plenty of great linebackers during his coaching days at LSU.

Hey football fans. Like our recruiting interviews, stories, and other content on our website? Click on our website daily to view articles on recruits, coaches, and so much more at our website: https://www.lafootballmagazine.com/. Also, we have exciting news that for the third straight year, we will have our North and South LA issues and both are now out! Both issues will continue to cover all the Louisiana colleges as well as all the high schools in state, but there will be 16 pages that will focus on North Louisiana as well as South Louisiana. For more information, please check the following link to where you can find the magazine in a store near you. Also, below are the two covers as well as where you can order both magazines on our website.

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