Cedric Whitaker, now an assistant coach for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, can’t imagine how his life would have turned out without that one pivotal day in 2011. That’s when he walked onto the Houston Texans’ practice field with hundreds of other high school football players, dreamers all of them.He was a senior at Houston’s North Shore Senior High School at the time, hoping that something he did—a sprint or a tackling drill or an interview—would get the attention of the dozens of college coaches observing that day.Something did. Whitaker still isn’t sure what impressed the coaches at Texas Lutheran University, but he remains thankful for the path it set him on: playing defensive back for the Bulldogs, earning a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, and then…The post This Event Turns Houston HS Football Dreams Into College Scholarships appeared first on Texas Monthly.