By Mark Giannotto; WASHINGTON POST

H.D. Woodson defensive lineman Jaylen Twyman tackled the ballcarrier near the Ballou sideline and figured this was his opening. A player who uses the alias “Sacktown” on emails had been bothered by social-media chatter suggesting his status as one of the Washington area’s top recruits was overblown.

So Twyman sauntered over to the Ballou bench, pulled up his jersey to reveal a Ballou football team T-shirt and began to dance. The taunt was an idea he had hatched in the locker room “to make sure they knew who I was,” Twyman said almost two months later.

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