Texas top ten performers from the games of September 3 and 4

Recruit Intel scored 5,995 Texas performances from the games of September 3 and 4 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 Texas board, the games of September 3 and 4

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. Texas's share of that window is 5,995 scored performances across 670 schools, out of 42,053 scored nationally in the same run, computed fresh on September 10. What follows is the 10 highest of those Texas 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, 0.318 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 3 from the class of 2027, 5 from the class of 2028 and 2 from the class of 2029. Our team rankings went live in 14 states on the September 9 run and Texas is not one of them: the state was held back because too few of its games carry an identified opponent and too few of its teams have 3 rated games yet. So no opponent below carries a Texas rank. One opponent is ranked in its own state, and that rank is printed.

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 21 other Texas performances inside this same scoring range. How we counted, below, says exactly what those filters are and what they held back.

Kye Wehby, WR, Kingwood (Humble), class of 2027. Against Clear Falls on September 3, in a 42-31 win: 1 carry for 8 yards, 10 catches for 200 yards and 3 touchdowns. RPM 99.79, grade A+.
Mataes Lee, TE, Troup (Troup), class of 2028. At Edgewood on September 4, in a 63-21 win: 1 catch for 6 yards and a touchdown, 9 tackles with 8 solo, 2 tackles for loss and 1 sack. RPM 99.78, grade A+.
Machi Harden, EDGE, Westbury (Houston), class of 2029. Against Fort Bend Dulles on September 4, in a 37-6 win: 1 carry for 10 yards and a touchdown, 8 tackles with 3 solo, 4.5 tackles for loss and 1 sack. RPM 99.74, grade A+.
Khyren Haywood, DL, Denton Guyer (Denton), class of 2027. At Melissa on September 4, in a 27-9 win: 1 carry for 1 yard and a touchdown, 8 tackles with 6 solo, 2.5 tackles for loss and 1 sack. RPM 99.69, grade A+.
Micah De Leon, WR, Argyle (Argyle), class of 2028. At Terrell on September 4, in a 55-27 win: 1 carry for 34 yards, 9 catches for 174 yards and a touchdown. RPM 99.66, grade A+.
Johnas Brewster, SS, Brennan (San Antonio), class of 2028. Against Reagan on September 4, in a 63-0 win: 18 tackles with 7 solo, 5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble and 2 fumble recoveries. RPM 99.58, grade A+.
Gavin Ross, G, Belton (Belton), class of 2027. At Bryan on September 3, in a 48-23 win: 2 carries for 12 yards and a touchdown, 9 catches for 206 yards and 3 touchdowns. RPM 99.55, grade A+.
Raider Payne, LB, Amarillo (Amarillo), class of 2028. Against Cleveland (NM #1) on September 4, in a 28-35 loss: 2 carries for 6 yards and a touchdown, 10 tackles with 3 solo and 2 tackles for loss. RPM 99.50, grade A+.
Caysien Douglas, WR, Navasota (Navasota), class of 2028. Against Madisonville on September 4, in a 56-28 win: 10 catches for 213 yards and a touchdown. RPM 99.47, grade A+.
Derek Toliver, OLB, Rains (Emory), class of 2029. Against Rice on September 4, in a 63-14 win: 18 tackles with 10 solo, 2 tackles for loss and 2 forced fumbles. RPM 99.47, 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 Texas line that made this board came from the games of September 3 and 4. 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 21 Texas performances that scored inside this range. Eighteen of them sit on player records our database does not flag as recruitable. That flag is also what catches the shadow duplicate records our stats loader creates when the same player is written twice, so a board drawn without it would risk printing one performance under two names. The other 3, including the 2 highest Texas scores in the window, sit on records that carry no position at all, and the format above cannot describe a performance it cannot position. Those 3 are logged for a position backfill and their scores stay 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.