Texas high school football defensive stat leaders after Week 5

Video: Anthony Hines' highlights vs. Wylie High School
Watch the Plano senior, who had 23 tackles on Friday, in action.

The Texas football season is already five weeks in and some defensive players are logging a season's worth of stats thus far. Here are your leaders on the defensive side of the ball as of Monday.

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TOTAL TACKLES
Anthony Hines III, Sr., Plano East (Plano) 87
The outside linebacker is having a monster season, averaging 21.8 tackles per game, and 15 tackles for loss. Hines had a season-high 23 stops, 12 solo, in his team's 36-21 victory over Wylie on Friday.

Sloan Rodberg, Sr., Wills Point 85
Rodberg is a beast at middle linebacker for the Tigers. He logged 16 tackles in Wills Point's 20-14 win over Hillsboro on Friday. Rodberg also has three forced fumbles on the season.

Landry Kershaw, Sr., Bishop Lynch (Dallas) 81
The middle linebacker has been a playmaker in his team's first four games. To go along with averaging 20.3 tackles per outing, Kershaw has three sacks. He had a season-low 16 tackles against Bishop Dunne on Friday, as the Friars fell 28-21.

Brandon Britton, Jr., Post 81
Britton came up with 14 tackles vs. Slaton on Friday, as the Antelopes won 49-0. He also has 15 tackles for losses this season.

Isaias Gonzalez, Sr., Banquete 78
Gonzalez corralled 14 tackles on Friday, in the Bulldogs' 41-28 win over Freer. The middle linebacker had 24 tackles in his team's season-opening victory.

SACKS Joshua Wells, Sr., Parkland (El Paso) 10
The defensive end was held without a sack his last game, but on Sept. 16, Wells tallied five sacks for negative 35 yards as the Matadors beat Bel Air 37-27. Wells had eight sacks all of last year.

Amaud Willis-Dalton, Sr., Cypress Ranch (Houston) 9
As an outside linebacker, Willis-Dalton has been able to get to the quarterback plenty this season. He came up with a sack in his team's 24-17 win over Cy-Fair on Thursday.

Gus Silva, Sr., Christoval 9
Silva is coming off a season-high four sacks as the Cougars thrashed Ranger 47-2 on Friday. The defensive end registered three sacks in the season opener.

Cameron McCleod, Sr., Montgomery 9
McCleod was held sack-less in his team's 45-14 win against Alief Hastings on Sept. 16. In his other three games this season, McCleod has two or more sacks.

Luke Brockermeyer, Jr., All Saints (Fort Worth) 9
Since not getting a sack in the season opener, Brockermeyer has logged nine sacks in the last four games. He had two sacks when the Saints downed Episcopal School of Dallas 46-26 on Friday.

INTERCEPTIONS
Deontray McKinney, So., KIPP Sunnyside (Houston) 5
At just 5-foot-4 and 145 pounds, McKinney doesn't let his height slow him down. In his first year starting at defensive back, he already has a three-interception game as a well as one with two interceptions.

Kobe Hailey, Sr., Frost 5
Along with being a strong defensive player, Hailey is a force on offense. The quarterback has run for 17 touchdowns this season. With his five interceptions, Hailey is averaging 27.8 yards per return.

Hayden Young, Fr., Pantego Christian (Arlington) 4
He is only a freshman, folks. Yet, he has four interceptions in just three high school games.

Jeremy Martinez, Jr., Port Isabel 4
Martinez was blanked from picking up an interception in his team's last game, but he had two picks -- which he returned for 71 yards -- in a 34-7 victory over Tomball Christian HomeSchool on Sept. 2.

Garrett Weaver, Sr., Navarro (Geronimo) 4
With just one interception entering his team's fifth game, Weaver grabbed three picks in the Panthers' 42-13 win over La Grange on Sept. 16.

Other players with four interceptions apiece: Walker Hicks, Sr., Bandera; Patrick Moran, Sr., Bowie (El Paso); Noah Moreno, Jr., Keller Central (Keller); Jaylen Neal, So., New Caney; Ashton Logan, Sr., Temple; Elmer Cruz, Jr., Princeton; Brian Bolger, Sr., Round Rock; Jacob Proche, So., Red Oak.