Israel Abrams and Diesel Dart have beef. They want to settle it on the high school football field.
The former challenged the latter to get a game on the schedule for Week 2.
I doubt Dart has enough pull to get this high-profile and high-stakes high school football game on the calendar but it would be pretty cool if he did. This would be one of the spiciest games of the season!
Who is Israel Abrams?
Abrams currently ranks as a four-star prospect in the college football recruiting Class of 2027. He is the second-ranked quarterback in the country, the top-ranked player in Illinois and the 14th-ranked player overall.
The 6-foot-4, 187-pound signal-caller competes for Montini Catholic out of Arlington Heights, Illinois and received 23 scholarship offers from schools like Arkansas, Duke, Tennessee, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Iowa and Indiana. Miami ultimately received his commitment at the beginning of April.
There are still eight-ish months for things to change between now and the Early Signing Period in December and Israel Abrams recently scheduled official visits to Auburn, Florida State, Purdue and Kentucky for May and June. However, he seems to be locked in on the Hurricanes. We’ll see.
Abrams is an elastic, play-making quarterback who will enter his senior year with a perfect 24-0 record as the starter for Broncos with two state titles. He gets the ball out quickly with very nice touch on the move but he can also sit in the pocket and work through his possessions or take off running on an RPO.
Montini Catholic finished last season as the No. 144-ranked high school football program in the United States. It would not be as good as it is without Abrams.
Who is Diesel Dart?
Diesel Dart is the younger brother of New York Giants starting quarterback Jaxson Dart but he is making his own name on the other side of the ball. The rising senior rates as a three-star safety prospect in the recruiting Class of 2027 out of Corner Canyon High School in Utah with 10 scholarship offers.
Corner Canyon is one of the most dominant programs in high school football over the last decade. It has produced guys like Zach Wilson and Jackson Powers-Johnson in the past and most recently finished the 2025 season at 12-2 as the No. 38-ranked team in the United States and the No. 1 team in the state.
Dart finished with 48 total tackles as a junior with two interceptions and five pass deflections. You do not want to see him coming down field if you are a ball-carrier. You don’t want to see him jump your route as a wide receiver. Quarterbacks should probably throw to the other side of the field.
The Chargers won three-straight state championships over the last three years. They will expect to be right back in the same position come November. Dart will need to be a leader on the defense for that to happen. He is more than capable.
Would Corner Canyon put Montini Catholic on its high school football schedule?
Diesel Dart linked up with Israel Abrams, perhaps for the first time, at an Overtime 7-on-7 even over the weekend. They talked a lot of trash back and forth at each other. Mostly the latter.
Abrams quipped that he and his Montini Catholic teammates are better when they “play real football with pads on” compared to the 7-on-7 circuit. Dart challenged him to play during the fall.
The Miami quarterback commit indirectly accepted the challenge and referred to Corner Canyon as “whatever that is in Utah.” Dart told him to put some respect on their name because they beat IMG. Abrams didn’t care. He wants to play the Chargers. He wants that game.
I’ll be honest, I have no idea whether it is logistically possible for these two schools to play during the regular season. I also do not know how high school football in Illinois stacks up to high school football in Utah.
Based on what I know about Dart the Chargers, I think Abrams would be in for a shock. He doesn’t want that smoke.
Unfortunately, I don’t think we will get to see this newly-formed beef between him and Dart play out on the field anyway. Plus, Abrams only talked all of that talk after Dart called him out to begin with!