Oregon QB Bo Nix and Duke Safety Brandon Johnson Named Walter Camp National FBS Players of the Week Presented by 777 Partners

The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, presented by 777 Partners, for games ending October 22.  

About the Award: This is the 19th 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

Senior, Quarterback, Pinson, AL/Pinson Valley

BO NIX, OREGON

Bo Nix completed 22-of-28 passes for 283 yards and five touchdowns as eighth-ranked Oregon defeated 12th-ranked UCLA, 45-30.   Nix had scoring passes of 17, 49, 2, 17 and 37 yards as the Ducks improved to 6-1, 4-0 in the Pac-12.

Notes: Bo Nix is the 11th Oregon player to earn Walter Camp National Player of Week honors since the award started in 2004, and the first since safety Bennett Williams (Sept. 26, 2021).

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

BRANDON JOHNSON, DUKE

Sophomore, Safety, Newton, NC/Newton-Conover

Brandon Johnson recorded a career-best nine tackles (8 solo), including two quarterback sacks and one interception Duke defeated Miami, 45-121.  Johnson returned his interception 28 yards for a touchdown in the victory, which improved Duke’s record to 5-3. 

Notes: Brandon Johnson is the sixth Duke player to earn Walter Camp National Player of Week honors (since 2004), and the first since former defensive back Jeremy Cash (September 27, 2015).


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

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