Miami QB D’Eriq King and Coastal Carolina DE Tarron Jackson 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 November 7.

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

D’ERIQ KING

Redshirt Senior, Quarterback, Manvel, TX/Manvel

D’Eriq King accounted for 535 yards as 10th-ranked Miami defeated North Carolina State, 44-41.  King completed 31-of-41 passes for 430 yards and five touchdowns and added 105 rushing yards as the Hurricanes improved to 6-1.

Notes: D’Eriq King is the fifth Miami player to earn Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week honors since the award started in 2004, and the first since DE Gregg Rousseau (Nov. 3, 2019).  King also earned National Offensive Player of Week honors on Oct. 28, 2018 as a member of the Houston Cougars.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

TARRON JACKSON, COASTAL CAROLINA

Redshirt Senior, Defensive End, Aiken, SC/Silver Bluff HS

Tarron Jackson recorded 10 tackles, 2.5 quarterback sacks, 2 quarterback hurries, and forced one fumble as 15th-ranked Coastal Carolina defeated South Alabama, 23-6.  With the win, Coastal Carolina improved to 7-0, 5-0 in the Sun Belt Conference.

Notes: Tarron Jackson is the first Coastal Carolina player to earn Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004.

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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