{"id":408935,"date":"2026-08-17T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:00:21","slug":"lubbock-area-top-high-school-football-players-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408935\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock-area top high school football players for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 17, 2026, 4:06 a.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">There&#8217;s no shortage of high school football talent in the Lubbock area. From highly-rated prospects to small-school superstars, here&#8217;s a look at the top returning players entering the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stats are from the 2025 season, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock-area high school football players to watch in 2026TOP QUARTERBACKJonah Reed, Sr., Monterey<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Reed rewrote the Monterey history books with the program&#8217;s single season-best 2,816 passing yards and 32 touchdowns. He completed 176 of 288 attempts and added three rushing TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 17, 2026, 4:06 a.m. CT There&#8217;s no shortage of high school football talent in the Lubbock area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[690,168,170,169,103686,175,176,44,258,257,177,3530,57074,9962,184,3054,46,142852,6344,36],"class_list":["post-408935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-accesspremium","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sourcelubbock-avalanche-journal","tag-sstssportshigh-school","tag-sstsnhigh-school","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagexclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-taghigh-school-football","tag-taghigh-school-sports","tag-taglubbock","tag-tagmonterey","tag-tagnew-deal","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagsudan","tag-tagto-the-point","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408935","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=408935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}