( Whitehouse, Texas ) - There have been many athletes that starred at high schools in East Texas who moved on to the NFL. Several of those players have gone to play in, and some even won, a Super Bowl. It's rare air, for sure, and pretty cool to say your an East Texan with a Super Bowl ring.

February 9 of this year (2025) there were two East Texans that played in Super Bowl LIX, Groveton Indian Lane Johnson and Whitehouse Wildcat Patrick Mahomes . Johnson's Philadelphia Eagles got the best of Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in that game. That stopped a possible three-peat for the Chiefs.

Patrick Mahomes at Whitehouse High School

Patrick played multiple sports while at Whitehouse High School, basketball, baseball and, of course, football. Patrick was a pitcher for the Wildcats just

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