The Colorado board, the games of September 10 and 11

Recruit Intel scored every recorded box score in its database for the current weekly window and ranked the field by RPM, our Recruit Performance Metric. Colorado's share of the September 17 run is 304 scored performances across 98 schools. What follows is the 10 highest of those Colorado scores, each from a game played on September 10 or 11. Every stat line below comes from our canonical database, drawn from recorded box scores, and every player named is verified by record identifier against a 2026 stat row at the school he is credited to.

The 10 highest scores

RPM is a percentile score computed within a position family, quarterbacks against quarterbacks and runners against runners, across the full national pool scored in this window. A score near 100 means the performance sat at the very top of its family nationally. The 10 below are separated by 1.81 of a point from top to 10th, and all 10 carry the same grade of A+. By class they break 7 from the class of 2027, 2 from 2028 and 1 from 2030.

  1. Malakhi Payne, RB at Monarch (Louisville), class of 2027. RPM 99.69. Against Fossil Ridge, provisionally ranked 71 in Colorado, Monarch won 44-37; he carried 29 times for 310 yards and 5 touchdowns.
  2. Alijah Landrum-Hamilton, WR at Cherry Creek (Englewood), class of 2027. RPM 99.28. Against Legend, ranked 8 in Colorado, Cherry Creek won 34-28; he caught 7 passes for 160 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  3. Colter Espinoza, QB at Ponderosa (Parker), class of 2027. RPM 99.21. Against Dakota Ridge, ranked 61 in Colorado, Ponderosa won 48-3; he completed 12 of 23 passes for 267 yards and 4 touchdowns, and ran 5 times for 44 yards.
  4. Asher Albright, RB at Del Norte (Del Norte), class of 2030. RPM 99.07. Against Sierra Grande, Del Norte won 20-6; he carried 17 times for 101 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 3 passes for 101 yards and a score.
  5. Sawyer Blomquist, RB at Ralston Valley (Arvada), class of 2027. RPM 98.75. Against Arapahoe, ranked 28 in Colorado, Ralston Valley won 35-17; he carried 19 times for 181 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 2 passes for 22 yards.
  6. Cade Filleman, LB at Regis Jesuit (Aurora), class of 2027. RPM 98.54. Against Mullen, ranked 32 in Colorado, Regis Jesuit fell 13-20; he made 16 total tackles, 2 of them for loss.
  7. Owen Erker, HB at Wiggins (Wiggins), class of 2028. RPM 98.44. Against Flatirons Academy, provisionally ranked 75 in Colorado, Wiggins won 39-27; he carried 22 times for 197 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  8. Teagan Greiman, S at Wellington (Wellington), class of 2027. RPM 98.32. Against Timnath, provisionally ranked 16 in Colorado, Wellington fell 26-27; he made 14 total tackles, 2 of them for loss, and forced a fumble and recovered another.
  9. Marquise Reese, QB at Mountain Vista (Littleton), class of 2027. RPM 98.22. Against Montrose, ranked 6 in Colorado, Mountain Vista won 40-33; he completed 20 of 29 passes for 339 yards and 2 touchdowns, and ran 8 times for 69 yards and a rushing score.
  10. Gage Gunderson, RB at Holy Family (Broomfield), class of 2028. RPM 97.88. Against Eagle Valley, ranked 42 in Colorado, Holy Family won 48-14; he carried 17 times for 140 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught a pass for 80 yards and a score.

How the board is built

The ranking is the top 10 Colorado scores by RPM with one game in the window, after our standard filters remove merged duplicate records, players our database does not treat as recruitable, and rows with no listed position. We also set aside a handful of players whose listed position sat on the opposite side of the ball from the stat line that earned the score, and promoted the next clean entry in each case. Ties would break to the younger class, then to record identifier. Opponent rankings are our own Colorado team rankings as of September 17, printed because Colorado is one of the 14 states where our team rankings are live. One opponent, Sierra Grande, has no ranked record in our database, so no ranking is printed for that game. The Fossil Ridge, Flatirons Academy and Timnath ranks are provisional and are flagged as such in the entries above.