The New Mexico board, the games of September 10, 11 and 12

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. New Mexico's share of the September 17 run is 502 scored performances across 62 schools. What follows is the 10 highest of those New Mexico scores, each from a game played on September 10, 11 and 12. 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 9.01 of a point from top to 10th. By class they break 5 from the class of 2028, 3 from 2027 and 2 from 2029.

  1. Evan Nanez, WR at Cleveland (Rio Rancho), class of 2028. RPM 98.35. Against Farmington, not ranked in New Mexico, Cleveland won 69-35; he caught 6 passes for 197 yards and 5 touchdowns.
  2. Jacoby Bamforth, QB at Portales (Portales), class of 2029. RPM 96.05. Against Santa Teresa, ranked 81 in New Mexico, Portales won 56-6; he completed 10 of 17 passes for 215 yards and 4 touchdowns; he also carried 8 times for 67 yards and a score.
  3. Joseph Keita, WR at Portales (Portales), class of 2028. RPM 95.56. Against Santa Teresa, ranked 81 in New Mexico, Portales won 56-6; he caught 3 passes for 137 yards and 2 touchdowns.
  4. Julian Fernandez, RB at Grants (Grants), class of 2029. RPM 94.76. Against Rio Grande, ranked 84 in New Mexico, Grants won 47-6; he carried 18 times for 192 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  5. Colton McKibben, LB at Carlsbad (Carlsbad), class of 2027. RPM 93.59. Against Centennial, ranked 8 in New Mexico, Carlsbad fell 7-35; he made 10 total tackles and added an interception.
  6. Zachary Perez-Verdeja, RB at Valley (Albuquerque), class of 2027. RPM 92.10. Against Del Norte, ranked 85 in New Mexico, Valley won 53-0; he carried 11 times for 146 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  7. Slade Segovia, RB at Portales (Portales), class of 2028. RPM 91.81. Against Santa Teresa, ranked 81 in New Mexico, Portales won 56-6; he carried 6 times for 143 yards and 3 touchdowns.
  8. Aiden Gonzales, FS at Volcano Vista (Albuquerque), class of 2028. RPM 90.68. Against Clovis, ranked 51 in New Mexico, Volcano Vista won 50-0; he made 8 total tackles, 1 of them for loss, and added an interception.
  9. Micah Takahashi, QB at Rio Rancho (Rio Rancho), class of 2027. RPM 89.95. Against Atrisco Heritage Academy, ranked 70 in New Mexico, Rio Rancho won 58-13; he completed 16 of 23 passes for 254 yards and 3 touchdowns; he also carried 4 times for 37 yards and a score.
  10. Cason Terrell, LB at Lovington (Lovington), class of 2028. RPM 89.34. Against Monahans, a Texas program, Lovington fell 7-35; he made 13 total tackles, 1 of them for loss.

How the board is built

The ranking is the top 10 New Mexico 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 New Mexico team rankings as of September 20, printed where the opponent is a rated New Mexico program. One opponent, Monahans, is a Texas program, so no New Mexico ranking is printed for that game. One in-state opponent, Farmington, is not yet carried in our New Mexico rankings, so no rank is printed there.