SAN ANTONIO — Head coach Larry Coker announced Friday that Jaylon Henderson (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood Park HS) and Clayton Woods (Dallas, Texas/Highland Park HS) have signed financial aid agreements to join his program for the 2015 season. The pair will graduate their respective high schools early and enroll at UTSA for the Spring 2015 semester.
Henderson, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound quarterback, has been a starter for the last three years at Kingwood Park High School. The dual-threat signal caller has completed 73-of-143 passes for 928 yards and 12 touchdowns in addition to rushing for 863 and six additional scores on 130 carries, as the Panthers have won four games this fall. He was member of the Touchdown Club of Houston's prestigious 32-member 2014 Preseason UIL All-Greater Houston Team and was one of just two quarterbacks named to the squad.
Henderson is coming off a junior campaign that saw him earn second-team All-District 19-5A honors after throwing for 1,090 yards and 11 TDs to go along with a team-leading 1,105 rushing yards and eight scores on 227 attempts. That came on the heels of a sophomore season that included 544 passing yards, another 560 on the ground and nine total touchdowns (5 pass/4 rush). He also is an all-district basketball player for the Panthers.
Meanwhile, Woods is a 6-foot-3, 280-pound offensive lineman who has started at center and deep snapper for Highland Park High School for the past two-plus seasons. He has helped lead the Scots to a 7-1 record this fall.
Woods is coming off a junior campaign that saw him earn first-team All-District 10-4A accolades, as he helped lead the team to a 13-2 ledger and a berth in the UIL Class 4A Division I semifinals, where it lost to eventual State Champion Denton Guyer.
He comes from a football family, as his father, Don, is Highland Park's defensive coordinator and his older brother, Austin, currently is an offensive quality control coach at Oklahoma after serving as the Sooners' long snapper from 2010-13.
UTSA (2-6, 1-3 C-USA), which is off this weekend, will return to action next Saturday, Nov. 8, at Rice (4-3, 2-1 C-USA). Kickoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. at Rice Stadium in Houston.