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Former Marcos Star Priest Willis Transfers from UCLA to Texas A&M

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This isn’t breaking news, Kevin Sumlin since taking over at Texas A&M has come to Arizona and snagged the top prospects in the state over the last few years.

He’s what is breaking, former Marcos de Niza standout Priest Willis has announced he is transferring from UCLA to Texas A&M.

https://twitter.com/pwillisjr15/status/626882414225129472

The Aggies now on their roster include in addition to Willis: Kyle Allen, Qualen Cunningham and Christian Kirk who are all among the most recruited players to come out of Arizona in the last few years.

Willis spent two years with the Bruins playing in nine games as a freshman in 2013 mostly on special teams and in 2014, appeared in and totaled 22 tackles on the season. His most tackles I’m a game was seven tackles which he did in front of family and friends at Arizona State.

Willis announced after last season that he would be transferring and Thursday, made his move official. UCLA also had another former AZ prep standout in Jalen Ortiz transfer out of the program this offseason as well.

A born and bred Arizonan, Jared has had great passion for the hometown teams all his life. He now channel's that passion into covering the pro, college and high school teams around the state as a Multimedia Reporter for Sports360AZ.

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