{"id":357188,"date":"2024-01-03T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=357188"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:01:31","slug":"gatorade-national-football-player-of-the-year-award-finalists-are-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=357188","title":{"rendered":"Gatorade National Football Player of the Year Award finalists are announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most prestigious awards in high school football is down to three, with the Wednesday morning announcement of the Gatorade National Football Player of the Year Award finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists for the award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Julian &#8216;Ju Ju&#8217; Lewis\u00a0<\/b>(sophomore quarterback from Carollton, Georgia and already committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/\">USC<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Julian Sayin\u00a0<\/b>(senior quarterback from Carlsbad, California and committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/\">Alabama<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><b>DJ Lagway\u00a0<\/b>(senior quarterback from Willis, Texas and committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/gatorswire.usatoday.com\/\">Florida<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year, Jackson Arnold, now a quarterback at <a href=\"https:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Oklahoma<\/a>, was the winner of the award. And the season before that, <a href=\"https:\/\/nittanylionswire.usatoday.com\/\">Penn State<\/a> running back Nick Singleton took home the honor.<\/p>\n<p>For those keeping track at home, that is two from the SEC and one from the Big Ten among the finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the more notable recipients of the Gatorade National Football Player of the Year Award include Emmitt Smith, Peyton Manning and Kyler Murray. <a href=\"https:\/\/playeroftheyear.gatorade.com\/winner\/national\">It was first given out in 1985<\/a> to future NFL quarterback Jeff George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Three are announced as finalists for the Gatorade Player of the Year Award.<\/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\/357188"}],"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=357188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357189,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188\/revisions\/357189"}],"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=357188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}