Here are your college football players of the week.
Remember, if you feel that another player was worthy of higher honors than the two I chose, post the athlete and let me hear why you think he or they were more deserving.
Here are your top performers of the week:
Offensive Player of the Week: Colt Brennan, QB Hawaii
Although Brennan’s Warriors didn’t play the stiffest of competition in Utah State, the quarterback had quite a game on Saturday. Brennan tossed six touchdown passes in Hawaii’s 63-10 win over the Aggies. He also broke Timmy Chang’s single season record for touchdown passes (39). Brennan didn’t stop there, either, as he set a new Hawaii record for consecutive passes without throwing an interception at 182 (he was intercepted in the third quarter on Saturday to halt the mark).
Defensive Player of the Week: Quinton Culberson, LB Miss. State, Erin Henderson, LB Maryland, J Lehman, LB Illinois
I can’t decide on which out of these three linebackers had the best day, so I’ll give due to all of them.
– Culberson had team-high 10 tackles and returned an interception 51 yards for a touchdown in the Bull Dogs 24-16 win over Alabama.
– Henderson recorded 18 tackles and a forced fumble while leading a defense that held Clemson to just 12 points in Maryland’s 13-12 win over the Tigers.
– Anybody that saw at least a fraction of the Illinois-Ohio State game saw Lehman in on virtually every Illini play on defense. The kid was a machine in recording 19 tackles, a forced fumble, a sack and recorded at least three tackles for loss in U of I’s 17-10 defeat to the Buckeyes. The guy even spent his time in-between plays orchestrating chants for the crowd…literally.
