Football runs in TJ Shanahan’s blood.
His father Tim played collegiately at Arizona. Ditto for his older brother Leka, who played at Utah. Another older brother, Michael, currently plays tackle for UT Martin. And his cousin Jon Halapio has had a four-year NFL career, most recently playing 15 games at center for the New York Giants in 2019.
So it was only natural that the 6-foot-4, 300-pound Shanahan’s first love at four years old was basketball and the now-four-star prospect didn’t even play organized football until 2017.
Wait, what?
“I knew (football) was something I was going to get into when I got older,” Shanahan told Eleven Warriors.