No matter how athletic you look on film and how productive of a junior season you have, it’s still tough to eval and project a triple-option QB, but Elk River’s Levi Harris Levi Harris 5'10" | 175 lbs | ATH/DB Elk River | 2026 State MN has really helped clear things up this spring. Harris, who is a dazzling ball carrier with smooth, twitchy footwork, lethal burst, and a wide variety of moves and jukes in the open field, verified the speed you can see on his junior tape thanks to a more than successful 2025 Outdoor Track & Field Season. Harris has clocked a 10.93 and 10.92 100M, as well as a 22.48 200M, immediately triggering scholarship offers from South Dakota and Army-West Point, forcing extra looks, recruiting board rises, and camp invites to the Elk River three-sport playmaker. I like Harris at DB at the next level, and he’s a big-time name to watch and follow on the summer camp circuit. Some good showings in person and unpadded, and his offer sheet could be looking a lot more filled out in the matter of a few days.

Another electric recruiting enigma and offensive weapon in the Minnesota 2026 Big Board, Elk River’s Levi Harris Levi Harris 5'10" | 175 lbs | ATH/DB Elk River | 2026 State MN was one of the fastest, most dynamic, production, and dangerous ball carriers in all of Minnesota last fall. After an unfortunate injury in Week 1 vs. Chanhassen took Harris out for the rest of the 2023 season, he hit the ground running as the Elk’s QB1 as a junior, leading Elk River to a 12-1 record and a Class 5A state championship while scoring 24 total TDs, carrying the rock 115 times for 984 yards, and adding 34 tackles and an INT and six PBUs as a DB. He was named Offensive Team MVP, District QB of the Year, and is a three-sport athlete who also competes in basketball and track & field. It’s somewhat of a lazy player comparison, but Harris has a lot of Cade Osterman in his game, and is an explosive, confident, fluid, and twitched-out-to-the-max ball carrier who can skirt, sprint, and maneuver around would-be tacklers like he’s on another plane of athleticism. Harris is on a short list of 2026 athletes whose speed I am itching and scratching to verify, and the only data point I can find on harris is an 11.3 100M time as a freshman, along with a video he posted himself on Twitter. His track & field web profiles do not have that listed, however. I am really hoping I can get this young man to the PRzMN Showcase in April/May. That’ll be after basketball, however, where Harris is averaging 14.9 PPG as a guard on the Elks hoops squad.

The Elk River playmaker can go 0-60 in a blink, leaves pursuers in the dust, and effortlessly cruises down the sideline and past defenders pursuit angles like they’re stuck in slow motion, and Harris was scoring long, unchecked TD runs three minutes into his junior tape. If you give him a gap or a tunnel of daylight and he is going to make you pay. The combination of burst and top-end speed makes him look like he’s shot out of a cannon if you leave him uninhibited for too long. Plus, the contact balance is pound-for-pound up there with the best in the state. Harris ate and worked through some big-time collisions that would knock the majority of ball carriers flat on their butts. He had a particular rep in the 5A state title game against Alexandria where he ate the safety’s hit – who was going 100 MPH downhill – in what resembled two bighorn rams going at it on a mountaintop, he then broke the same defender’s second tackle attempt as he sprinted through space for a hair-raising gain. Defensively, he shows impressive range as the deep safety who can read, process, and patrol the third level of the field with authority. Able to flip his hips, stay on top of speedy WRs streaking downfield, and make great plays on the ball in the air, as well as come downhill as the high safety and cover a ton of ground in run support, meeting ball carriers at and behind the LOS for clean tackles. Harris also returned a punt for six against Alexandria without any Cardinals figuring out how to even touch the explosive three-way contributor. I am dying to know how fast Harris truly is, but no matter the time he clock you can’t deny that he owns some of the best tape in the state.

Although he’s positioned as the signal caller for the Elk River Elks, Harris has a bright future at the next level as a primary ball carrier. Last season Harris rushed for 984 yards and 20 TDs while averaging a very impressive 8.6 ypc. He also recorded 34 total tackles, 1 INT, and 6 PBUs as a safety. On his tape, Harris is a monster. He possesses breakaway speed and he breaks tackle after tackle with the rock in his hands. He wastes no time getting upfield and as soon as you give him an inch, he’s going to take a mile. He’s fresh off of a state championship season last fall, and it’s a real possibility we could see a back-to-back ring season for the Elks with Harris at the helm.