Some of the apical high schoolhouse football players successful Southern Nevada implicit the past fewer years person been wide receivers.
The endowment showed astatine April’s NFL draft erstwhile Liberty High postgraduate Germie Bernard (Pittsburgh Steelers) and Bishop Gorman postgraduate Zachariah Branch (Atlanta Falcons) were drafted. And the adjacent procreation of Las Vegas precocious schoolhouse wide receivers is connected way to marque an interaction astatine the adjacent level.
Here is simply a look astatine the apical 5 returning precocious schoolhouse shot wide receivers successful Southern Nevada entering the season. (Players are listed successful alphabetical order).
Zac Fares, Arbor View
Fares is listed arsenic a choky extremity but is inactive 1 of the champion walk catchers successful the authorities and successful his people nationally. Fares had 38 catches for 541 yards and 7 touchdowns arsenic Arbor View reached the Open Division authorities rubric game. Fares, listed astatine 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds, is simply a two-time Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada selection. The elder is simply a three-star enlistee and the state’s sixth-ranked people of 2027 enlistee by 247Sports. In April, helium committed to UCLA. Fares had much than 40 Division I offers and had different notable offers from Texas, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State.
Zyren Menor, Bishop Gorman
Menor burst onto the country arsenic a sophomore past twelvemonth arsenic 1 of Gorman’s apical receivers. Menor had 22 catches for 577 yards and 14 touchdowns arsenic the Gaels rolled to the Open Division authorities title. The 6-foot, 180-pound receiver added 163 kickoff instrumentality yards and a touchdown and was named a first-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada wide receiver. Menor is simply a four-star enlistee by 247Sports and the state’s No. 2-ranked people of 2028 recruit. He has Division I offers from Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas A&M, Miami, and Tennessee.
Brandon Quaglio, Sloan Canyon
The state’s starring wide receiver past twelvemonth came from the rising 4A powerhouse program. Quaglio led the authorities with 1,301 receiving yards and 23 touchdowns. He averaged 100.1 receiving yards per crippled connected 71 full catches successful 13 games arsenic a junior. Quaglio, listed astatine 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds, was a first-team Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada wide receiver arsenic Sloan Canyon went 12-1 successful 2025.
Jayden Thomas, Centennial
Thomas has been 1 of the cornerstone players that’s helped Centennial rebuild implicit the past 3 seasons. As a inferior past year, Thomas was Centennial’s starring receiver with 32 catches for 610 yards and 11 touchdowns arsenic the Bulldogs reached the 5A Southern Region rubric crippled arsenic the No. 8 seed. During way and tract season, Thomas helped Centennial triumph its archetypal squad authorities title since 2017 by moving a limb connected the Bulldogs’ 4x100-meter relay that won the 5A authorities rubric astatine the authorities conscionable successful May. He committed to Minnesota successful June implicit UNLV, San Diego State and California and held 14 Division I offers.
Damani Warren, Arbor View
Injuries hampered Warren past year, arsenic helium lone had 16 catches for 223 yards and a touchdown successful six games. But now, afloat healthy, is successful store for a large elder year. As a sophomore successful 2024, helium had 35 catches for 584 yards and 5 touchdowns successful helping Arbor View scope its archetypal shot authorities title game. Warren has been 1 of the astir sought-after recruits successful Southern Nevada. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound wide receiver is simply a three-star enlistee by 247Sports, the state’s No. 3-ranked people of 2027 enlistee and the 50th-ranked wide receiver successful the state successful his class. He committed to Texas A&M successful June, choosing the Aggies implicit Michigan and had 41 Division I offers.
Others to watch: Louden Cahill, Basic; S’Marion Coleman, Mojave; Kai Cypher, Arbor View; Dasean Deayon, Las Vegas High; Nixon Gasperosky, Foothill; King Kahalewai, Spring Valley; Jaden Mason, Faith Lutheran; Justin McCullah, Mater East; Christian Smith, Chaparral.
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