{"id":479509,"date":"2026-09-29T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:44:10","slug":"press-telegram-boys-athlete-of-the-week-jemel-grigsby-wilson-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479509\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week: Jemel Grigsby, Wilson \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noteworthy: The junior scored three touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving) in Wilson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2026\/09\/25\/wilson-football-runs-past-compton-to-pick-up-first-win-of-the-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">41-7 win<\/a> against Compton last week. Grigsby had 211 total yards of offense, including 139 rushing yards. Wilson (1-5) and will play at Jordan on Friday in a Moore League opener.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wilson\u2019s Jemel Grigsby runs the ball for a gain during...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFB-WIL-CPT-0926-392-2.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s Jemel Grigsby runs the ball for a gain during Friday\u2019s nonleague game against Compton at Compton High School on Friday, September 25, 2026. (Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Wilson\u2019s Jemel Grigsby is tripped by Compton\u2019s Edward...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFB-WIL-CPT-0926-477-2.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Wilson\u2019s Jemel Grigsby is tripped by Compton\u2019s Edward Rivera During Friday\u2019s nonleague game at Compton High School on Friday, September 25, 2026. (Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Wilson running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFB-HB-WIL-0905-36-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Wilson  running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against Huntington Beach during a nonleague home game on Friday September 4, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Wilson running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFB-HB-WIL-0905-38-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Wilson running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against Huntington Beach during a nonleague home game on Friday September 4, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Wilson running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFB-HB-WIL-0905-16-2.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Wilson running back Jemel Grigsby (10) carries against Huntington Beach during a nonleague home game on Friday September 4, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s Jemel Grigsby runs the ball for a gain during Friday\u2019s nonleague game against Compton at Compton High School on Friday, September 25, 2026. (Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noteworthy: The junior scored three touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving) in Wilson\u2019s 41-7 win against Compton last week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5478,7,5479,2043,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-479509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}