{"id":389076,"date":"2026-07-28T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:09:18","slug":"txhsfb-primer-top-returning-dfw-rushing-leaders-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389076\/","title":{"rendered":"TXHSFB primer: Top returning DFW rushing leaders for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>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>Below are the top returning rushers at 4A and lower classification schools, based on The Dallas Morning News&#8217; top 20 rushing leaders from a season ago (listed in descending order of yards).<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 143 carries for 1,208 yards (8.45 average) and 16 TDs<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 111 carries for 1,095 yards (9.86 average) and 13 TDs<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 71 carries for 872 yards (12.28 average) and 4 TDs<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 98 carries for 662 yards (6.76 average) and 7 TDs<\/p>\n<p>Stats: 102 carries for 659 yards (6.46 average) and 3 TDs<\/p>\n<p>4A\/Others: Passing | Rushing | Receiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stats alone don&#8217;t lead to success in Texas High School football, though piling up the yards and collecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-389076","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\/389076","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=389076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}