BYU QB Zach Wilson and Clemson LB Baylon Spector Named Walter Camp FBS Players of the Week, presented by Generation UCAN
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, presented by Generation UCAN, for games ending October 3.
About the Award: This is the 17th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
ZACH WILSON, QB, BYU
Junior, Quarterback, Draper, Utah/Corner Canyon HS
Zach Wilson accounted for five touchdowns (2 passing, 3 rushing) as 22nd-ranked BYU defeated Louisiana Tech, 45-14. Wilson completed 24-of-26 passes for 325 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for 43 yards and three scores.
Notes: Zach Wilson is the fourth BYU player to win the award since 2004, and the first since former Cougar QB Max Hall was honored on Sept. 9, 2009.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
BAYLON SPECTOR, CLEMSON
Graduate Senior, Linebacker, Calhoun, GA/Calhoun HS
Baylon Spector recorded a career-best 13 tackles (4 solo), including 1.5 for losses, and added 0.5 quarterback sacks as top-ranked Clemson defeated ACC-rival Virginia, 41-23.
Notes: Baylon Spector is the 11th Clemson player to earn Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004, and the first since former Tiger LB Isaiah Simmons (Dec. 1, 2019).
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Walter Camp, “The Father of American
football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale
University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play
from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the
restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation
(www.waltercamp.org,@WalterCampFF)
– a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the
ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an
All-America team. The Foundation is a member of the National College
Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a
coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and
enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards.
The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the
administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and
recipients. For more information, visit the association’s website, www.ncfaa.org
