{"id":326739,"date":"2023-08-28T18:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326739"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:00:13","slug":"usa-today-hss-top-5-stars-of-the-week-aug-28-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326739","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY HSS Top 5 Stars of the Week, Aug. 28, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high school football action was jam-packed with top performances on Friday and Saturday (Aug. 25 and 26, respectively), which made selecting the HSS Stars of the Week a difficult task.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, these athletes caught our attention the most when scouring the highlight reels across the gridiron.<\/p>\n<p>Standing-O to the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; DJ Lagway, QB, Willis (Texas)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Jonathan Merimee, WR, St. Ignatius (Cleveland, Ohio)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Keelon Russell, QB, Duncanville (Texas)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Nick Marsh, WR, River Rouge (Mich.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; James Madison II, WR, St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><em>Note from the HSS team:<\/em> <em>To possibly have an athlete featured in our weekly selection, DM the highlight videos to USA TODAY High School Sports on\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/usatodayhss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodayhss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/high-school-football-scores-for-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">High School Football Scores: Live in-game\/final results around the nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nfhspc.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/index.html??campaign=1205322&amp;source=NFHS_Impact&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nfhsnetwork.com%2F%3Firclickid%3DUT%253A2XXXaMxyNR4rR9dTovRG2UkF1qGWxMTkQUc0%26irgwc%3D1%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_source%3Dimpact%26utm_campaign%3DUSA%2520TODAY%2520Sports%2520Media%2520Group%26utm_content%3D1205322\"><strong>Live-stream or watch the 2023 high school football season on-demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The High School Sports staff picks the inaugural Stars of the Week.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326741,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326739\/revisions\/326741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}