DCTX Midseason TXHSFB Players of the Year

6A: Fort Bend Ridge Point QB Brody Bartee

So many people deserve credit for Fort Bend Ridge Point starting 5-0, but senior quarterback Brody Bartee might top the list. The Panthers needed him to take a massive step in 2026, not because he wasn’t already great, but because their offensive personnel had more questions than last year. The leading returning receiver, Suhaib Ramseur, had 339 yards. The leading returning rusher, Brady Nguyen, had 285 yards. And, most importantly, the offensive line had to replace three Division I players.

Bartee has answered the call, averaging 343 passing yards per game with 15 touchdowns and two interceptions. Ramseur (91.8 yards per game) and senior John Rangel (549 yards, six touchdowns) have blossomed into one of the Houston area’s best wide receiver tandems. Ridge Point has taken down preseason top-ten-ranked Dickinson, a Shadow Creek team that beat preseason No.5-ranked Shadow Creek, and a Cypress Bridgeland team that beat high-powered Cypress Ranch. Fort Bend Ridge Point boasts one of the state’s best 5-0 resumes, and they have the Florida Atlantic commit at quarterback to thank.

5A: Richmond Randle RB Landen Williams-Callis

No one entered the 2026 season with more hype than Texas Longhorns commit Landen Williams-Callis. He became the first solo high school athlete to grace the cover of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine since Cedric Benson in 2000. Now, he’s 48 yards from passing Cedric Benson on the all-time rushing yards list. Benson is not the only legend Williams-Callis will surpass. He snapped his uncle Jaquizz Rodgers’s touchdown mark to take first place in greater Houston-area history. Williams-Callis is rushing for 209 yards per game and has 12 touchdowns this year.

4A: Kerrville Tivy QB Cohen Stehling

Kerrville Tivy (4-0) hasn’t looked this good offensively since Johnny Manziel was under center. The Antlers have scored over 70 points in back-to-back weeks, pushing their season average to 65 points per game. Sophomore Cohen Stehling, listed as a QB/WR athlete in the preseason Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine, looks to have found a permanent home behind center. He’s throwing for 367 yards per game with 19 touchdowns and just one interception. His play has unlocked the wide receiver/brother tandem of Kenyon and Kyrin Armelin. Kenyon is averaging 184 receiving yards per game with nine touchdowns, while Kyrin has 136 yards per game and eight touchdowns.

3A: Whitney ATH Kobe Haynes

Kobe Haynes’s stat line through Whitney’s first six games looks like a video game. The TCU commit has 1,430 passing yards and 17 touchdowns through the air, and also leads Whitney on the ground with 848 yards and 19 touchdowns. Combined, that’s 232 touches for nearly 1,900 yards and 36 touchdowns… at mid-season. If Kobe keeps this up, his father, Whitney head coach David Haynes, could become the winningest coach in school history this year.

2A: De Leon RB Lane Couch

Lane Couch was a First Team All-District running back last fall with 890 yards and 15 touchdowns in a 13-game season. Through just five games this year, Couch has 1,041 yards and 11 touchdowns, averaging 11.2 yards per carry and 208 yards per game. With Couch as the feature star, De Leon is averaging 40.6 points per game. His prowess is also a credit to a De Leon offensive line that returned First Team All-District performers Eli Garza and Silas Winegeart.