Vashaun Coulon wasn’t holding a football the first time Robert Valdez noticed him.

St. Augustine had just hired Valdez as football coach when he saw the sophomore pestering ball handlers with relentless defense on the basketball court.

Coulon, then on the junior varsity team, was everywhere — hounding the opposing point guard no matter where he went.

But something else stood out just as much as his intensity.

It was his size.

“He was little,” Valdez said.

Coulon — still small by quarterback standards at 5-foot-10, 175 pounds — has long since erased any doubts about his ability to play the position.

Last week, the second-year starter threw seven touchdown passes in a 68-40 win over a team led by Keisean Henderson, a 6-3 five-star quarterback and Houston commitment ranked as the No. 1

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