Georgia top ten performers from the games of September 4 and 5

Recruit Intel scored 2,387 Georgia performances from the games of September 4 and 5 and ranked them by RPM. Here are the 10 highest that clear our verification filters, each with its stat line, opponent, final score and performance score.

The Georgia board, the games of September 4 and 5

Recruit Intel scored every recorded box score in its database for the window that opens with the games of August 30, and ranked the field by RPM, our Recruit Performance Metric. Georgia's share of that window is 2,387 scored performances across 271 schools, out of 42,053 scored nationally in the same run, computed fresh on September 10. What follows is the 10 highest of those Georgia scores. 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 defenders against defenders, 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 tightly bunched, 0.339 of a point from first to tenth, so the order reflects small differences, and all 10 carry the same grade of A+. By class they break 6 from the class of 2027, 2 from the class of 2028 and 2 from the class of 2029. Where the opponent sits on our live team rankings, that rank is printed beside its name, taken from the September 9 ranking run. 7 of the 10 opponents below are ranked in a state where our rankings are live. The rest carry no rank here, either because their state is not in the live set or because their team does not yet have enough rated games to be placed.

This is not a full ranking of every performance in the state. It is the 10 highest that clear our own verification filters, which set aside 5 other Georgia performances inside this same scoring range. How we counted, below, says exactly what those filters are and what they held back.

Jaden Upshaw, WR, Lee County (Leesburg), class of 2027. At Sequoyah (GA #22) on September 4, in a 43-32 win: 11 catches for 213 yards and 2 touchdowns. RPM 99.94, grade A+.
Cannon Robinson, QB, Westlake (Atlanta), class of 2028. At Hillgrove (GA #96) on September 4, in a 48-24 win: 11 of 17 passing for 310 yards and 4 touchdowns, 6 carries for 36 yards and a touchdown. RPM 99.91, grade A+.
Drew Williams, ILB, Sequoyah (Canton), class of 2027. Against Lee County (GA #9) on September 4, in a 32-43 loss: 2 carries for 6 yards and a touchdown, 11 tackles with 6 solo, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack and a pass deflection. RPM 99.89, grade A+.
Jr Harris, QB, Central (Carrollton), class of 2027. At East Paulding (GA #45) on September 4, in a 49-56 loss: 21 of 36 passing for 614 yards, 5 touchdowns and an interception, 8 carries for 40 yards and a touchdown. RPM 99.89, grade A+.
Braxton Palmer, ATH, Peachtree Ridge (Suwanee), class of 2028. At Greenville on September 4, in a 33-30 win: 11 catches for 177 yards and 3 touchdowns, 1 tackle, and 57 kick return yards. RPM 99.80, grade A+.
Austin Stinson, RB, Houston County (Warner Robins), class of 2027. Against Jones County (GA #220) on September 4, in a 45-14 win: 18 carries for 226 yards and 3 touchdowns, 3 catches for 38 yards and a touchdown. RPM 99.79, grade A+.
CJ Cypher, QB, Carrollton (Carrollton), class of 2029. At Catholic on September 4, in a 61-27 win: 26 of 34 passing for 358 yards and 5 touchdowns. RPM 99.77, grade A+.
Donterrius Mincey, RB, Toombs County (Lyons), class of 2027. At Swainsboro (GA #122) on September 4, in a 49-21 win: 29 carries for 255 yards and 7 touchdowns, and 1 catch for 23 yards. RPM 99.73, grade A+.
Micah Joyner, QB, Dougherty (Albany), class of 2029. Against Spencer (GA #144) on September 4, in a 42-19 win: 18 of 24 passing for 333 yards and 5 touchdowns, and 4 carries for 12 yards. RPM 99.69, grade A+.
Savoy Nichols, QB, Creekside (Fairburn), class of 2027. At St. Joseph Regional on September 5, in a 49-20 win: 12 of 20 passing for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, 7 carries for 11 yards and 2 touchdowns. RPM 99.60, grade A+.

How we counted

The window here is the scoring run computed on September 10 that opens with the games of August 30. Every Georgia line that made this board came from the games of September 4 and 5. Each rests on a sample of one game, and that sample is stated on purpose, because one strong night is one strong night and not a season. The final score beside each line is that game's own result in our database, and an opponent rank, where one is printed, is that opponent's position on our September 9 state ranking run.

Two filters set aside 5 Georgia performances that scored inside this range. Four of them sit on player records our database does not flag as recruitable, among them a second, duplicate record for a player who is already on the board below under his canonical record. The fifth, the highest Georgia score in the window, sits on a record that carries no position at all, and the format above cannot describe a performance it cannot position. It is logged for a position backfill and its score stays in the scoring table.

Every number here comes from the Recruit Intel canonical database. Each player was matched by record identifier to a 2026 stat row at the school named, with class year checked, so the player credited with each line is the player who produced it. Common names were resolved to a single record before anything was published, and where two records exist for the same player at the same school, only the one our database treats as canonical was scored.

This is one of the Recruit Intel state performance boards, published as each weekend's box scores land.