QB Magazine Athlete Feature
Ask Dylan Bee why he started playing tackle football at seven, and he gives the most honest answer a kid has ever given.
“Loved to hit kids and not get in trouble.”
That’s the beginning of it, and you can still see it in how he plays. The Fontana, California quarterback out of EM Speed and Power didn’t grow out of the contact — he built a game around it.
“I love to be in control of the offense, throw touchdowns, and still be physical when I run,” he said.
Control and collision in the same sentence. That combination explains his favorite quarterback without him having to say much: Josh Allen, chosen for the strong arm and the fearless play. It’s not a subtle comparison, and it isn’t meant to be. Bee likes the version of the position where the quarterback is the toughest guy on the field, not the protected one.
But ask him what a great quarterback actually needs and the answer turns inward.
“To be able to handle pressure and have thick skin. To be a motivator, which I am working on.”
That last clause is worth stopping on. Plenty of young quarterbacks list leadership as a quality they already possess. Bee lists it as one he’s still building — an unusually clear-eyed thing to admit at his age, and probably the most promising sentence on his questionnaire.
He’s already been tested on the durability part. Asked about the biggest obstacle of his career, he doesn’t describe a defense or an injury. He describes a schedule.
“Being on a team where we had to commute and doing homework in the car, late nights, and minimal off time.”
That’s a season lived mostly in traffic — the kind of grind that quietly ends a lot of young careers before talent ever gets a say. His response was not complicated.
“Just put my head down and push, and ended up with a championship and lots of lessons learned.”
The throwing itself traces back to Coach Davilla, who started teaching him the mechanics when he was nine, and who Bee credits above anyone else for one specific reason: he was patient. “He was always patient and positive with me.” These days the development work runs through Coach Aldridge at Throw First and Coach Cutt’s Elite QB Academy.
His goals are as unadorned as everything else he says. Get stronger. Get faster. Make a high school decision.
That last one is the whole story right now. Bee is at the hinge point of a young football life — the stretch where a kid stops being a youth quarterback and starts being a high school one, where the program he lands in shapes the next four years of everything. He’s spent seven years hitting people legally, learning to throw from a patient coach, and doing homework in a car on the way home from practice. Now the part that counts starts.
He’s earned the right to find out what he’s got.
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Why a Membership Matters
Ask Dylan for his most memorable football moment and he answers honestly: not sure.
That’s not a knock. It’s the truest thing on his whole questionnaire, and it’s exactly why the next few months matter more than any that came before.
Because he does have moments. He won a championship on a team he had to commute to, doing homework in the back seat, running on late nights and minimal off time. Seven years of tackle football since he was a kid who just liked to hit people. A quarterback coach who taught him to throw at nine and never lost patience with him. All of that happened. None of it is anywhere a stranger can find, and some of it has already started to blur — which is what happens to everything nobody wrote down.
Now look at what’s in front of him. A fall season. High school football, the level where the evaluation actually begins, and the first snaps that anyone outside Fontana will ever have a reason to look at.
This is the window. Not next spring, not junior year — this fall. The season that’s about to start is where the first real stats come from, the first film worth sending, the first game a coach might ask about. A quarterback who sets his profile up in August has a record that fills in live, week by week, all season long. A quarterback who waits until December is asking people to care about a season that’s already over, from a kid they’ve never heard of.
The floor costs nothing. A free QB Magazine profile gives him a recruiting page, performance and academic stats, film links, and photos — a permanent home for the season he’s about to play. Dylan should have that set up before his first game, not after.
But a profile only works on someone who already knows to look for him. A membership is what puts him in front of people who don’t. A monthly custom graphic turns a name in a list into something a thumb slows down for. Feature articles give the name a story instead of a stat line — one a year on Practice Squad, two on Starter, one every quarter on All-Pro. And weekly Instagram and X reposts carry it all into a room his own account can’t reach: camp directors, trainers, and college staffs who follow the magazine specifically because that’s where they go looking for quarterbacks.
Southern California makes that harder, not easier. Fontana sits in one of the deepest quarterback regions in the country, which means Dylan isn’t fighting for attention against Idaho or Minnesota — he’s fighting for it against a hundred other kids with arms in the same three counties. Being good is the entry fee. Being findable is the separator.
There’s a practical piece too. The Starter tier includes consideration for the Top 50 QB Mag Watchlist and priority for the College Bus + Camps TOUR — the trip that puts athletes on college campuses, in front of college staffs, throwing. It also cuts camp costs in half, and All-Pro covers them entirely. Dylan’s already training with two academies. Those checks are getting written regardless.
And one last thing that has nothing to do with recruiting.
Dylan wanted Coach Davilla in this article — the man who taught a nine-year-old to throw and stayed patient while he learned. Every article and every graphic becomes a permanent piece of that record. Not a clip that vanishes down a feed by Friday. Proof of what a kid was building, and who he thanked while he was building it.
He said his goal is to make a high school decision.
He’s about to. The only question left is whether anyone outside the stands finds out what he does after that.