Morning Jolt (Aug. 18): Texas high school football's top returning rushers

This is the Morning Jolt, TexasFootball.com’s wake-up call to get up and start thinking about football. Forget passing for a moment. Let's give the runners some love. Passing may be the coin of the realm in Texas high school football these days, but that doesn't mean there aren't fantastic running backs dotting the state. Let's take a look at the top 10 returning rushers, whose names you may want to get to know as the 2015 season quickly approaches. Top Returning Rushers One thing you'll quickly notice: more than half of them are from Class 6A or 5A. That's quite a change from normal, when small schools tended to produce the most big-number rushers. But most of the top rushers in the small-school ranks last year were seniors. Also of note: just two 3,000-yard rushers return from last year in Everman's Kierre Crossley and Seagraves' Cory Kyle? Can they top their monstrous numbers from 2014? We'll see.