{"id":376748,"date":"2026-07-17T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376748\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:09:18","slug":"txhsfb-primer-top-returning-dallas-area-6a-receiving-leaders-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376748\/","title":{"rendered":"TXHSFB primer: Top returning Dallas-area 6A receiving leaders for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Blake Gunter\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:3 \/ 2\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/>Demetrio Teniente \/ The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n<p>Stats alone don&#8217;t lead to success in Texas High School football, though piling up the yards and collecting touchdown catches certainly helps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-channels-pixel.ex.co\/events\/0012000001fxZm9AAE?integrationType=DEFAULT&amp;template=design%2Farticle%2Fplatypus_two_column.tpl\" alt=\"\" class=\"x1px y1px vh abs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last year was last year, and it is hard to predict what will happen based on the previous season&#8217;s failures or successes. Still, it&#8217;s nice to know which playmakers, game-changers and record-breakers will once again play under the Friday night lights.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll look at the top returning players in terms of passing yards, rushing yards and receiving yards in the 6A, 5A, 4A\/others and private school classifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Below are the top returning receivers at 6A schools, based on The Dallas Morning News&#8217; top 20 receiving leaders from a season ago (listed in descending order of yards).<\/p>\n<p>Blake\u00a0Gunter, Southlake Carroll<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 66 catches for 1,224 yards (18.55 average) and 18\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n<p>Notable:\u00a0Gunter is ranked 46th overall in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/2026\/02\/09\/meet-the-50-best-dallas-area-high-school-football-players-in-the-class-of-2027\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top 100 recruits<\/a> for the Class of 2027 and is the No. 6 overall WR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Javion Broussard, Duncanville<\/p>\n<p>Stats (while at Kimball): 58 catches for 1,093 yards (18.84 average) and 13\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Nichols, Arlington Bowie<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 61 catches for 1,086 yards (17.80 average) and 13\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Hawkins, Trophy Club Byron Nelson<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 62 catches for 1,017 yards (16.40 average) and 14\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n<p>Trenton Yancey, Duncanville<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 55 catches for 852 yards (15.49 average) and 8\u00a0TDs<br \/>Notable: Yancey is ranked 16th overall in The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top 100 recruits for the Class of 2027 and is the No. 2 overall WR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Brody Knowles, Southlake Carroll<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 40 catches for 849 yards (21.23 average) and 7\u00a0TDs<br \/>Notable: Knowles is ranked 35th overall in The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top 100 recruits for the Class of 2027 and is the No. 5 overall WR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Damarion Mays, North Crowley<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 54 catches for 843 yards (15.61 average) and 11\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demetrio Teniente \/ The Dallas Morning News Stats alone don&#8217;t lead to success in Texas High School football,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-376748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}