{"id":430327,"date":"2026-09-09T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430327\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:20:36","slug":"vote-week-2-fort-worth-area-football-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430327\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Week 2 Fort Worth-area Football Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788931235_879_FTW_07-AED_NorthCrowleySouthlakeCarroll.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"North Crowley running back G\u2019yrell Smith (3) pushes past Southlake Carroll defense during the first half of the game on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 at Crowley ISD Stadium in Fort Worth.\" alt=\"North Crowley running back G\u2019yrell Smith (3) pushes past Southlake Carroll defense during the first half of the game on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 at Crowley ISD Stadium in Fort Worth.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        North Crowley running back G\u2019yrell Smith (3) pushes past Southlake Carroll defense during the first half of the game on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 at Crowley ISD Stadium in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>                Abigail Dollins<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>Which Fort Worth-area high school football player had the best Week 2 performance?<\/p>\n<p>You tell us. Vote for the Week 1 Star-Telegram Fort Worth-area Player of the Week. See top performances from around the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to MaxPreps<\/a> and Star-Telegram stats.<\/p>\n<p>The poll will remain open until 3 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>See a good performance in Week 3? Send a Player of the Week nomination to the Star-Telegram (cbaggarly@star-telegram.com).<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: Players are ineligible for weekly awards if their team didn\u2019t submit stats to the Star-Telegram or if coaches didn\u2019t upload them to MaxPreps. Please email high school sports editor Charles Baggarly at cbaggarly@star-telegram.com.<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners<\/p>\n<p>Week 1: Holt Frazier, Brock (Passing: 232 yards, 72.7% completion, 3 TDs)<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/276018746\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788931236_465_Charles_Baggarly (1).jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Charles Baggarly\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/276018746\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Baggarly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Charles Baggarly is a high school sports editor and reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He graduated from TCU in 2023 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and served as TCU 360\u2019s sports editor. Connect with Charles on Twitter or via email.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Crowley running back G\u2019yrell Smith (3) pushes past Southlake Carroll defense during the first half of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-430327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430327","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=430327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}