The Nevada 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. Nevada's share of the September 17 run is 432 scored performances across 50 schools. What follows is the 10 highest of those Nevada scores, each from a game played on September 10 and 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 7.34 of a point from top to 10th. By class they break 7 from the class of 2027 and 3 from 2028.

  1. Gavin Folino, WR at Faith Lutheran (Las Vegas), class of 2027. RPM 99.95. Against Morgan, a Utah program, Faith Lutheran fell 36-54; he caught 10 passes for 201 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  2. Anthony Taylor, RB at Foothill (Henderson), class of 2027. RPM 96.96. Against Las Vegas, ranked 32 in Nevada, Foothill won 35-28; he carried 16 times for 84 yards, and caught 4 passes for 97 yards and a score.
  3. Thaddeus Thatcher, QB at Arbor View (Las Vegas), class of 2027. RPM 96.90. Against Centennial, ranked 8 in Nevada, Arbor View won 55-34; he completed 13 of 16 passes for 218 yards and 3 touchdowns; he also carried 5 times for 55 yards and 3 scores.
  4. Brandan Mauga, DE at Legacy (North Las Vegas), class of 2027. RPM 96.47. Against Spring Valley, ranked 41 in Nevada, Legacy won 28-0; he made 9 total tackles, 5 of them for loss, and added 4.5 sacks.
  5. Felix Romero, RB at Clark (Las Vegas), class of 2028. RPM 95.39. Against Moapa Valley, ranked 12 in Nevada, Clark fell 35-42; he carried 18 times for 173 yards and 2 touchdowns.
  6. Nico Panelli, RB at McQueen (Reno), class of 2027. RPM 94.93. Against San Marin, a California program, McQueen won 51-12; he carried 17 times for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns.
  7. Irae Pulalasi, DE at Basic (Henderson), class of 2027. RPM 94.24. Against Virgin Valley, ranked 38 in Nevada, Basic won 38-28; he made 8 total tackles, 3 of them for loss, 3 sacks, and added 2 pass breakups.
  8. Wayne Budd, ILB at GV Christian (Henderson), class of 2027. RPM 93.88. Against Pinecrest Academy Cadence, ranked 60 in Nevada, GV Christian won 24-8; he made 8 total tackles, 3 of them for loss, 3 sacks, and added a fumble recovery.
  9. Kai Fields, DL at Faith Lutheran (Las Vegas), class of 2028. RPM 93.05. Against Morgan, a Utah program, Faith Lutheran fell 36-54; he made 12 total tackles, 1 of them for loss, and added a pass breakup.
  10. Roman Carrizales, DE at Silverado (Las Vegas), class of 2028. RPM 92.61. Against Canyon Springs, ranked 52 in Nevada, Silverado won 34-18; he made 8 total tackles, 2 of them for loss, and added 2 sacks.

How the board is built

The ranking is the top 10 Nevada 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, or whose position label the earning line contradicts, 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 Nevada team rankings as of September 20, printed where the opponent is a rated Nevada program. Two opponents, Morgan and San Marin, are out-of-state programs, so no Nevada ranking is printed for those games.