Rockwall and Rockwall-Heath both made it into the top 50 teams in the Class 6A state rankings as compiled by Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football Magazine.<\/p>\n
The 65th summer edition of the magazine has been released and as usual it features extensive coverage of Texas college and high school football.<\/p>\n
Rockwall, which went 6-6 last season, ranked 28th, while the Heath Hawks, who are coming off a 4-6 season, were ranked 44th.<\/p>\n
Southlake Carroll, which returns 10 starters on offense and nine on defense, earned the No. 1 preseason ranking. The Dragons went 15-1 last season.<\/p>\n
North Crowley, a 16-0 state champion in 2024, is ranked No. 2 though returning only two starters on offense. Duncanville, 13-1 in 2024, is ranked third, followed by perennial powers Austin Westlake and Galena Park North Shore. Those two teams won both 14 games last season.<\/p>\n
The magazine picked Longview to repeat as the District 10-6A champions, followed by Rockwall, North Forney, Heath, Forney, Tyler Legacy and Royse City.<\/p>\n
Longview was No. 17 in the magazine\u2019s top 50 rankings and North Forney was 34th.<\/p>\n
Last year Longview went 6-0 in District 10-6A play while North Forney was 5-1, Rockwall and Forney were both 3-3, Heath and Legacy were both 2-4 and Royse City was 0-6.<\/p>\n
The magazine picked Forney running back Javian Osborne, who rushed for 1,239 yards and 22 touchdowns last season, as the preseason Offensive Most Valuable Player for District 10-6A and Longview defensive lineman Krystin Williams as the Defensive MVP.<\/p>\n
Osborne also earned second-team honors on the magazine\u2019s Super Team on offense.<\/p>\n
Rockwall wide receiver-defensive back Jack Duckworth made the magazine\u2019s top 10 list of athletes who are college prospects. Legend Bey of North Forney also made the top 10 list.<\/p>\n
Duckworth caught 34 passes for 472 yards and five touchdowns last season for the Yellowjackets and returned 13 kickoffs for 245 yards with a long return of 60 yards. He also intercepted a pass on defense.<\/p>\n
The magazine also picks an FBS Power Poll of the top college football teams. Texas, whose head coach Steve Sarkisan is on the cover, was ranked No. 1 followed by Texas Tech, Texas A&M, SMU, Baylor, TCU, Houston, UT-San Antonio, North Texas and the Texas State Bobcats.<\/p>\n
The magazine ranked the Southland Conference with Incarnate Word first, followed by Stephen F. Austin, Lamar, McNeese, Southeastern Louisiana, East Texas A&M, Nicholls, Houston Christian, Northwestern State and UT-Rio Grande Valley. ETAMU wide receiver Christian Jourdain was listed as one of the Southland\u2019s \u201cFive Players to Know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jourdain led the Lions last season with 51 catches for 683 yards and six TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockwall and Rockwall-Heath both made it into the top 50 teams in the Class 6A state rankings as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[265,648,386,639,5075,67,68,7,49,65,70,63,48,632,3015,26036,51,26930],"class_list":{"0":"post-182691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-american-football-bowls","10":"tag-baylor-bears-football","11":"tag-champion-seasons-in-american-football","12":"tag-college-football-bowls","13":"tag-college-football-conference-seasons","14":"tag-college-football-seasons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football","18":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-seasons","19":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","20":"tag-ncaa-football","21":"tag-seasons-in-american-football","22":"tag-southland-conference","23":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs-football","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-am-aggies-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}