{"id":77546,"date":"2025-08-18T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77546\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:56:12","slug":"south-alabama-high-school-football-players-rate-the-best-player-theyve-ever-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77546\/","title":{"rendered":"South Alabama high school football players rate the best player they\u2019ve ever faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Saraland vs. Blount\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RVI3HEZNNJEF3KSSCJUQOTGZNE.jpg\" \/>Former Saraland and current Alabama star Ryan Williams is the state&#8217;s only two-time Mr. Football winner. (Todd Stacey I preps@al.com)Todd Stacey | preps@al.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2JTAMNPUCFBFXNRKDWHTC7VXIY\">Ryan Williams. EJ Crowell. Ronnie Royal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZBLIQ3JVQ5HMJJI7ODSI22YX4Y\">It\u2019s no surprise those three stars were the names most mentioned when AL.com asked players at Mobile and Baldwin County Media Days to name the best high school player they had ever faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Saraland and current Alabama star Ryan Williams is the state&#8217;s only two-time Mr. Football winner. (Todd Stacey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-77546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}