No fooling: 10 Dallas/Fort Worth high school football teams, 5 players on national radar

Video: The Allen (TX) Football Experience

Hey, it's April 1 and we all know what that means: Fourteen days until tax day? Yes. The day to pull a fast one? Absolutely.

But germane to this national football editor is that we are only a couple months away from selecting our preseason top 25 national football rankings. Here are our final ones from last season.

Here are 10 of the teams from the Dallas/Fort Worth region we're giving serious consideration to. Let us know if we're missing any.

And below that are the top five Dallas/Fort Worth region recruits from the Class of 2017, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Everything is in alphabetical order - and no, we aren't fooling.


Allen

Brock

Carroll (Southlake)

Cedar Hill

DeSoto (De Soto)

Lake Ridge (Mansfield)

Marcus (Flower Mound)

Mansfield

Ryan (Denton)

Trinity (Euless)

Final 2015 Texas rankings


1. (8 nationally) S Jeffrey Okudah — South Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie)

2. (17) LB Baron Browning — Kennedale

3. (40) OG Jack Anderson — Frisco

4. (53) OG Tyrese Robinson — Boyd (McKinney)

5. (65) LB Anthony Hines III — Plano East