{"id":1469,"date":"2022-02-03T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:07:46","slug":"journal-signing-day-isnt-a-celebration-for-some-of-the-most-deserving-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Journal \u2013 Signing Day isn\u2019t a celebration for some of the most deserving players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By TONY TAGLAVORE, Journal Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Zyon Lilly wants is a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou grind \u2014 blood, sweat and tears,\u201d Lilly said. \u201cYou put it all on the line. When you do that, and you don\u2019t get rewarded, it\u2019s really just a hurt feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Captain Shreve senior doesn\u2019t <em>think<\/em> he can play college football. He knows he can. But Wednesday, much to his disappointment, Lilly was a supporter \u2014 instead of a signee \u2014 at the school\u2019s National Signing Day Ceremony. Braylon Finney (Grambling) and Ckelby Givens (Southern) will play football at the next level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy for my teammates, because we\u2019re brothers at the end of the day,\u201d Lilly said. \u201cI\u2019m really being humble, because I know I can play. I know somebody will give me a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lilly, a defensive lineman, was named second team All-District 1-5A both his junior and senior seasons. Last fall, Lilly was seventh on his team in tackles, tied for fourth in tackles for loss, and was third in sacks. All that, on a squad that shared the district title, and advanced to the second round of the state playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I can play, because we play at the highest level \u2014 in Class 5A,\u201d Lilly said. \u201cWe play in the toughest league. I go up against guys bigger than me most of the time. Really, people just need to start <em>recruiting football players.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that Lilly hasn\u2019t drawn interest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/shreveportbossierjournal.com\/2022\/02\/03\/signing-day-isnt-a-celebration-for-some-of-the-most-deserving-players\/\">ShreveportBossierJournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY TAGLAVORE, Journal Sports All Zyon Lilly wants is a chance. \u201cYou grind \u2014 blood, sweat and tears,\u201d Lilly said. \u201cYou put it all on the line. When you do that, and you don\u2019t get rewarded, it\u2019s really just a hurt feeling.\u201d The Captain Shreve senior doesn\u2019t think he can play college football. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ka5C-nH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblog.captainshreve.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}