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Saw him in the state championship game. Electric player. Desoto in general is just so damn fast. He wasn't even the best player on the field. Boobie Feaster plays WR for them.
Meet the Texas high schooler who rushed for 1,628 yards in the state playoffs
SaRod Baker, a three-star prospect in the Class of 2027, averaged 271.3 yards in six postseason games for DeSoto (Texas) High.www.nytimes.com
Meet the Texas high schooler who rushed for 1,628 yards in the state playoffs
By Grace Raynor
Dec. 29, 2025 6:00 am CST
Claude Mathis issued a challenge to his players at DeSoto (Texas) High before the Eagles began their playoff run last month.
“We asked everybody to take their game up to a whole different level,” the coach said.
No one heard that message more clearly than his running back, Class of 2027 prospect SaRod Baker.
“Some of the things he did and some of the plays (he made) when the defense really had him … the only thing you can say is, ‘Wow,’” Mathis said. “I’m like, ‘How the heck did he get out of that?’”
In what will go down as one of the greatest postseason performances in Texas high school history, Baker dazzled with 1,628 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns over six games while leading DeSoto to its third state title in the past four years. That’s an average of 271.3 yards per game against some of the state’s top competition, and his performance caught the attention of some of the top programs in the nation. Baker, ranked No. 819 nationally (for now) in the 247Sports Composite, earned offers from Ohio State, Colorado, Oregon and Texas immediately after the playoffs.
He was quick to credit his teammates.
“How I did it was because of my O-line,” Baker said. “They work so hard in practice. … (Coaches) always stay on them about staying on their blocks and blocking to the whistle, being physical, and I just was patient and let my linemen do all the work and I just made a couple guys miss.”
Baker, who also picked up a Texas Tech offer last month, said he didn’t realize how impressive his numbers actually were until the Eagles put the finishing touches on the title with a 57-44 come-from-behind win over Southlake Carroll.
He singled out this run in a Round 3 win over Longview as one of the biggest plays of his late-season surge.
“I was being patient, I found a crease, and I hit it, but I’d seen two defenders coming from the right side and I knew I couldn’t go inside because they were pursuing inside,” he said. “So I had to make a move outside to where both of them couldn’t tackle me, so I just did the spin move, and I wasn’t really thinking of it, it really just happened. That run was cool. I didn’t really think too much of it until I saw it on Twitter. I was like, ‘Yeah, that was a good run right there.’”
After that?
“I never looked back the rest of the playoffs,” he said. “After the Longview game, I was always having 200 or 300 rushing yards a game, so that really was why my numbers were so high.”
Baker finished the 16-game season with 342 carries for 3,096 yards and 45 touchdowns, meaning more than half of his rushing yards for the year came in the six-game playoff stretch.
He’ll have another chance to show off his skill set next month, when he competes in the Navy All-American Bowl in San Antonio alongside some of the nation’s top prospects.
Mathis said that Baker had this type of talent in him all along, but that it took some time to develop. The playoffs were his coming-out party.
“His vision is unbelievable,” Mathis said. “His footwork is unbelievable. He runs with such great passion. He runs hard every single time he touches the football.
“I would say he has moves like Barry Sanders, but he has the body of Emmitt Smith.”
After the All-American game next month, Baker will have some time to start thinking more about his recruitment. He said he can remember telling a friend last year that he always wanted to share a graphic on social media with his offers on it, but that he didn’t feel like he had enough to justify one. Now he has 20-plus and counting, including offseason offers from SMU, TCU, Auburn, UCF, Pitt, Minnesota and others.
As for what he’s looking for, he said he isn’t necessarily tied to staying in the Lone Star State, but is instead most focused on his relationships with the coaches. Expect his stock to only climb between now and next year’s early signing period.
“It’s been a dream come true,” Baker said of the last month. “This is what I’ve been wanting to do my whole life.
“Just living out my dream … it’s been fun. Most definitely.”
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When you're so damn humble that you have to get a massive forearm tatoo to tell everyone how humble you are.
Can we go after Cam Coleman or is he a lock to A&M
Doubt that's in the cards based on his price tag. From Auburn On3:
Per sources, Coleman’s NIL offer from Auburn was well north of $2 million. While Auburn personnel felt optimistic about the conversations, there was a sense his agent preferred he end up elsewhere. Ultimately, Coleman needed to feel comfortable with the new coaching staff and the projected starting quarterback, and that didn’t happen.
I do not know the answer to whether Coleman would return or not.
He is ranked 140th in the portal or was when this was written.
A lot of guys have entered recently, so here he is now:
Yeah. Even if we wanted to meet his price tag, it would be a tough pull considering we don't even know who our QB is going to be next year.
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