Edna Karr will face a quarterback who is deserving of his national ranking as the No. 1 player at his position for the 2026 graduating class.

This is the assessment Karr coach Brice Brown put on Dia Bell of American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.) ahead of the teams’ game Friday at the Caesars Superdome.

Karr (1-0) will face American Heritage (1-1) in a matchup between two nationally ranked programs — each a reigning state champion — on the same night that Rummel faces University High in the opening game of the high school twin bill at the Dome.

Bell, a Texas commitment, is “worthy of the No. 1 quarterback ranking,” Brown said as he spoke Tuesday about the possible successor to Arch Manning.

Bell also is the reigning Gatorade Florida player of the year after he passed for 2,597 yards and

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