Demetrio Teniente \/ The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n
Stats alone don’t lead to success in Texas High School football, though piling up the yards and collecting touchdown catches certainly helps.<\/p>\n
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Last year was last year, and it is hard to predict what will happen based on the previous season’s failures or successes. Still, it’s nice to know which playmakers, game-changers and record-breakers will once again play under the Friday night lights.<\/p>\n
Over the next few weeks, we’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
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Below are the top returning rushers at 5A schools, based on The Dallas Morning News’ top 20 rushing leaders from a season ago (listed in descending order of yards).<\/p>\n
SaRod Baker, DeSoto<\/p>\n
Stats: 342 carries for 3,096 yards (9.33 average) and 45\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n
Notable: Baker is ranked 4th overall in The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top 100 recruits<\/a> for the Class of 2027 and is the No. 1 overall\u00a0RB<\/a>. Baker had a season for the ages last year, running for 3,096 yards and 45 touchdowns as DeSoto won its third Class 6A Division II state title in four years. Baker, rated the fifth-best running back in the nation in the Class of 2027, could break the area\u2019s single-season rushing record of 3,522 yards that was set by Mansfield\u2019s Kennedy Brooks in 2015. Baker made a bid for that last year by rushing for 1,557 yards and 20 touchdowns in six playoff games while averaging 259.5 yards per game.<\/p>\n Jayson Gibson, Richland<\/p>\n Stats: 246 carries for 2,321 yards (9.43 average) and 41\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Notable: Gibson is ranked 24th overall in The Dallas Morning News\u2019 top 100 recruits for the Class of 2027 and is the No. 2 overall\u00a0RB.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trey Wright, Frisco Lone Star<\/p>\n Stats: 166 carries for 1,694 yards (10.20 average) and 16\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Damarian Robinson, West Mesquite<\/p>\n Stats: 190 carries for 1,473 yards (7.75 average) and 17\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Julian Ashley, Terrell<\/p>\n Stats: 139 carries for 1,448 yards (10.42 average) and 21\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Darrik Ward, Crandall<\/p>\n Stats: 200 carries for 1,246 yards (6.23 average) and 18\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Evan Koehne, Celina<\/p>\n Stats: 150 carries for 1,044 yards (6.96 average) and 15\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Terrence Collins, North Mesquite<\/p>\n Stats: 125 carries for 1,022 yards (8.18 average) and 17\u00a0TDs<\/p>\n More stat leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demetrio Teniente \/ The Dallas Morning News Stats alone don’t lead to success in Texas High School football,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-380792","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\/380792","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=380792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}