{"id":213489,"date":"2025-09-09T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213489\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:32:10","slug":"who-are-the-highest-ranked-dallas-area-txhsfb-players-in-the-recruiting-class-of-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213489\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the highest-ranked Dallas-area TXHSFB players in the recruiting Class of 2028?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Class of 2028 is expected to feature a wealth of talent in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/\">Dallas area<\/a>, with several players already ranked among 247Sports\u2019 top 200 nationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Here are the area\u2019s top-ranked players:<\/p>\n<p>James Foster III, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/lancaster\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/lancaster\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\">Lancaster<\/a>, S<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Foster is the No. 4 safety in the Class of 2028 and the No. 40 overall player, according to 247Sports. The 6-1 safety was named District 11-6A Defensive Newcomer of the Year as a freshman. He also ran season-best times of 15.39 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles and 43.16 in the 300 hurdles, according to MileSplit.<\/p>\n<p>High School Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">The latest news, analysis, predictions and more for each season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damarion Mays, North Crowley, WR<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Mays is t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/03\/26\/one-of-nations-top-receivers-is-now-at-north-crowley-and-his-recruiting-has-taken-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/03\/26\/one-of-nations-top-receivers-is-now-at-north-crowley-and-his-recruiting-has-taken-off\/\">he No. 5 player from Texas in the Class of 2028<\/a>. The 6-2 wide receiver has four catches for 77 yards and one touchdown in his first season at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/09\/06\/north-crowley-clings-to-narrow-lead-to-beat-desoto-in-the-early-morning-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/09\/06\/north-crowley-clings-to-narrow-lead-to-beat-desoto-in-the-early-morning-hours\/\">North Crowley<\/a>. He transferred from Life Oak Cliff, where he caught 68 passes for 1,640 yards and 14 touchdowns as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Brendyn Jackson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/midlothian\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/midlothian\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\">Midlothian<\/a>, WR<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The four-star wide receiver is the No. 12-ranked player from Texas in the Class of 2028. Jackson led Midlothian in receptions (44), receiving yards (706) and touchdowns (7) as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Carter Zingelmann, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/coppell\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/coppell\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\">Coppell<\/a>, QB<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Zingelmann is the highest-ranked quarterback in the Dallas area in the Class of 2028. He has five offers after serving as the backup to former Coppell quarterback Edward Griffin, now at Baylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Taylor is the highest-ranked cornerback in the Dallas area in the Class of 2028. He has five offers and is the No. 15-ranked player in the Class of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/lovejoy\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/lovejoy\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\">Lovejoy<\/a>, OT<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Thompson is the highest-ranked offensive lineman in the Dallas area in the Class of 2028. He helped Lovejoy post the area\u2019s No. 2 scoring offense at 48.4 points per game and the No. 6 total offense at 421.9 yards per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more high school sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Sign up for our FREE HS newsletter.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Class of 2028 is expected to feature a wealth of talent in the Dallas area, with several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1318,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-213489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115175774129034999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}