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Xavier Daniels

Running Back

2025 Class

6'1" Height

220 Weight

Hill-Murray School

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Xavier Daniels is a 6'1" Running Back in the 2025 class. Daniels attends Hill-Murray in Minnesota. Daniels's Player Profile was created on March 7, 2024. Subscribe to Prep Redzone to see where Xavier Daniels is ranked and what our scouts have written about them.

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Hayden Lindquist

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Daniels has been a dominant ball carrier throughout his senior season, averaging just over 100 yards per game through week 7. He’s got 15 all-purpose TDs this season, 12 rushing and 3 receiving. All while averaging a fantastic 7.3 ypc. Daniels is a powerful zone runner, who boasts a nasty stiff arm, and impressive acceleration both through the line of scrimmage as well as on the outside. He runs through defenders and has solidified himself as one of the best backs in his class.

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Oliver West

Prep Redzone Lead Scout

I was more than excited to dig into Hill-Murray’s 6’1, 220 lb. RB/LB Xavier Daniels for the 2025 PRzMN Official Rankings Update as well as this post-publishing feature. When I came across his Twitter profile and saw the size this dude was carrying, I got the scouting equivalent to butterflies in my stomach, and he caught the eye of more than a few powerhouse college programs during his 2023 junior season. Daniels was one of the favored 2025s to earn an offer from MSU-Mankato during their initial wave of offers to the rising seniors from MN, WI, and Iowa. The Mavs have recently been all over XL RBs and trucksticking ball carriers like Daniels, so I was extra excited to see him reel in the Mavs NSIC offer, and he’s far from finished on the recruiting trail.

The Thunder to Gopher commit Simon Seidl Simon Seidl 6'0" | 170 lbs | DB Hillmurray | 2024 State MN proverbial Lightning, Daniels totaled 930 yards and 9 TDs on the ground in 2023 and looks like a runaway train coming between the tackles and bounces off tackle attempts like he’s playing JV opponents. His gait forces defenders to account for his shiftiness, and he shows some quickness in space, which opens them up to one of the biggest trucksticks in the state and a RB who runs through contact like it’s a Styrofoam wall and he’s the Kool-Aid Man. You can visibly see defenders hesitate to come full throttle into contact, make business decisions, and wimp out of contact in some of his junior reps, and I also see some good vision, visible pace through the first couple levels of the defense, and the strength that requires multiple defenders to drag him down. You don’t see this often in prep RBs so I HAD to give it a shoutout, but I really like Daniels‘ pass pro capability as a RB, as he will hang in there, shows good technique and toughness, and an aggressive willingness to protect his QB. Plus, he’s a threat as a pass rusher who can put his hand in the dirt and shows the power to beat Metro linemen with strength at the point of attack, as his pop sends OTs and OGs backward and into the QBs grill. I could watch him run into people all day long.