{"id":233013,"date":"2026-04-03T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:22:08","slug":"texans-woody-marks-honored-by-state-of-georgia-with-official-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233013\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans\u2019 Woody Marks honored by state of Georgia with official proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Texans running back Woody Marks was honored Thursday by the state of Georgia by an official proclamation as an Outstanding Georgia Citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was designated by the Secretary of State and was joined by his family, including his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Marks is holding his first annual charity bowling tournament in May at Lucky Strike in Houston to benefit the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cYou can get involved just by going on my foundation page,\u201d Marks said. \u201cPut smiles on people\u2019s faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">His message to the community? <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cJust stay level-headed,\u201d Marks said. \u201cStay in school. This world we live in, we need everybody. Just stay in school, get good grades, and then see what life takes you on to that with whatever major you want to go into, whatever you want to do in life, no matter if it\u2019s a football player or a doctor, just do what\u2019s good for you, and just strive to be the best<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Marks went bowling with the Texans\u2019 running backs and running backs-assistant head coach Danny Barrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThat was pretty fun,\u201d Marks said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Marks won the bowling competition versus his teammates, but the standout was Barrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cCoach DB, he pretty good,\u201d Marks said. \u201cYeah, he got it. He was pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/click2houston.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/click2houston.com\">click2houston.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Texans running back Woody Marks was honored Thursday by the state of Georgia by an official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16616,56,58,57,79,80,10414],"class_list":{"0":"post-233013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-georgia","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-woody-marks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}