The Five Fastest TXHSFB Players Returning in 2026

5. Joe McKinney II, Duncanville RB

Here’s some perspective on how deep Duncanville football is. RB Joe McKinney II is the fifth-fastest football player in the state with a 10.33 100-meter dash. He had 20 carries for 119 yards his entire junior season. Could McKinney be in for a breakout senior year after breaking the Donnie Conner Panther Relays meet record? He’ll be part of a backfield committee with sophomore Santana Roberson and junior LaDereon Childs.

4. Landon Barker, Amarillo 

Barker broke his own school record in the 100-meter dash with a 10.29 at the District 3-5A DI meet. The craziest part… he came in second to Lubbock-Cooper senior Josiah Davis. But with another year-and-a-half left in his high school career, Barker has more time to catch Davis – and put his school record further out of reach. For the 99 percent of the population that can’t run a sub-10.5-second 100-meter dash, Barker was nice enough to strap a GoPro to his head while he did it and posted it to his Instagram so we could all live vicariously through him.

3. Zion Williams, Carrollton Newman Smith RB

This past weekend, Williams ran a 10.27 100-meter dash into a -1.2 headwind. For perspective, that would’ve placed seventh at the COLLEGIATE 44 Farms Invitational. The AAU Junior Olympics Champion has a track offer from Oklahoma, but has also been on a football official visit to North Texas. Williams had 138 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the backfield for Newman Smith and was also a dynamic return specialist.

2. Darnell Jackson Jr., Conroe Grand Oaks WR

Jackson earned First Team All-District 13-6A honors at wide receiver, and his track times this spring have proven why he was leaving defenders in the dust last fall. The 5-foot-11-inch, 170-pound prospect won the 100-meter dash district championship this past weekend with a blazing 10.08. The offers flowed in just as fast after he posted his time. Later that day, he reported offers from Mississippi State and Nebraska.

1. Dillon Mitchell, Sheldon C.E. King WR 

Want to know why Dillon Mitchell has been called “Superman” since Little League football? Because this kid can flat out fly. 

This spring, Mitchell ran the third-fastest wind-aided 100-meter dash in U.S. history with a blazing 9.88 seconds. The week before, he set the 18U world record in the 60M sprint at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships, running 6.61 seconds. 

Mitchell was the District 23-6A Newcomer of the Year last season as a sophomore, which was named the toughest district in Texas by DCTX, after posting 1,800 all-purpose yards. Sheldon C.E. King is coming off their first state championship game in program history.