{"id":261275,"date":"2026-09-06T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/kids-who-will-be-playing-on-sundays-ohio-states-jeremiah-smith-texas-ryan-wingo-highlight-best-week-1-cfb-performances\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:51:20","slug":"kids-who-will-be-playing-on-sundays-ohio-states-jeremiah-smith-texas-ryan-wingo-highlight-best-week-1-cfb-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/kids-who-will-be-playing-on-sundays-ohio-states-jeremiah-smith-texas-ryan-wingo-highlight-best-week-1-cfb-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids who will be playing on Sundays: Ohio State&#8217;s Jeremiah Smith, Texas&#8217; Ryan Wingo highlight best Week 1 CFB performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Each week of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college football\u00a0<\/a>season, Yardbarker will spotlight standout performers, some of whom will be playing on Sundays. With that in mind, here are five from Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Smith is still the best player in college football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a 56-3 home win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/ball_state_cardinals\/278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ball State Cardinals<\/a>, Smith logged eight receptions for 151 yards and two touchdown catches, including a 48-yarder from junior QB Julian Sayin. Along with generating explosive plays, he does the little things right, which NFL scouts will love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On his second TD catch late in the second quarter, Smith ensured he kept both feet in the end zone instead of one. In college, pass-catchers only need to get one foot down in bounds, but in the NFL, they must keep both feet in.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/kids_who_will_be_playing_on_sundays_ohio_states_jeremiah_smith_texas_ryan_wingo_highlight_best_week_1_cfb_performances\/s1_13132_44266014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week of the college football\u00a0season, Yardbarker will spotlight standout performers, some of whom will be playing on Sundays. With that in mind, here are five from Week 1. Reminder: Smith is still the best player in college football.\u00a0 In a 56-3 home win over the Ball State Cardinals, Smith logged eight receptions for 151 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}