After this year’s 2022 NFL Draft, we have updated this all-time list. It might surprise some that the NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and there were a lot of early years in which there were only 13 picks in the first round. We still have the highest players selected from a California...
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Ben Yurosek: Grid-Hoop State POY
The 6-foot-5, 220-pound senior from Bakersfield Christian wasn’t able to add a CIF Division IV state title in basketball to the one he celebrated in December in D3-A in football, but he led the Eagles to a SoCal regional title and he was the Bakersfield Californian Player of the Year in both sports. Ben also […]
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Some of the teams in this group figure to be way up there for the 2020 preseason rankings, such as No. 28 Alemany (Mission Hills). We also have big bumps at the end for CIF D2-AA state champ Clayton Valley and a team with a head-to-head win over the Ugly Eagles. The only two newcomers...
All-Decade Football: 2000s
CalHiSports.com has been covering the best of California prep sports for over 40 years and in that time we’ve seen some great players on football fields in every corner of the state. Some lived up to all the hype surrounding them as prep players, while others never were able to duplicate their high school production...
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With all of the teams that didn’t play last week, there are no new ones that have moved up this week into this group from below. But with previous No. 10 Serra of San Mateo falling from the unbeaten ranks, there is at least some movement. We didn’t drop the Padres out of the top...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There’s only one newcomer into this week’s rankings and the Rocklin High Thunder did it the best way a team can do it — by beating an opponent already ranked. The other team that made a massive move (up 22 positions) was new No. 27 Rancho Verde of Moreno Valley. The Cougars had to get...
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
We have uncovered some of the most unique athletes we’ve ever selected in the more than 30 years of doing these honors, including a world-class track hurdler who is an elite point guard in basketball and the No. 2 ranked junior golfer in the nation who was a leading player on a basketball team that...
Closest We’ll Get To All-State Frosh
This isn’t an all-state football team, but here’s a look at some of the most impressive ninth grade players who were on varsity rosters all season that were collected by us in our research for this year’s various all-state teams. Record breakers of the future could be QB AJ Duffy of Rancho Verde, WR Kevin...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The state No. 2 Pinewood of Los Altos Hills girls often get “the Jump” on opponents with their Stanford-bound sharpshooter. She’s joined as a NorCal Player of the Week by a promising sophomore from Carmel. For SoCal, high-scoring junior Clark Slajchert of Oak Park and athletic forward DeMariyah McGee from Rancho Verde of Moreno Valley […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta of Murrieta lost to Orange Lutheran 42-17, but gets to go way up in the rankings this week because a team the Broncos beat in their first game, Los Alamitos, was the one that knocked off previous No. 17 Long Beach Poly and we didn’t want to drop both the Jackrabbits and Narbonne...
