LaNorris Sellers and T.J. Parker earn Walter Camp Honors
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Earl Heath
Contributing Sports Writer
The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the Football Bowl Subdivision National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week for games ending November 16. presented by The Heights Group at Morgan Stanley. LaNorris Sellers of South Carolina and TJ Parker from Clemson
Sellers led South Carolina (7-3, 5-3 in the SEC) to a 34-30 win over Missouri. Sellers completed 21-of-30 passes for a career-high 353 yards and a career-high five touchdowns. He added 45 yards rushing, finishing with a career-best 398 yards of total offense.
The RS Freshman is the seventh South Carolina player since 2004 that has earned Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week honors, and the first since Nov. 20, 2022 (QB Spencer Rattler).
On the defensive side Parker recorded seven tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, 4.0 quarterback sacks, one pass breakup and one forced fumble in Clemson’s 24-20 win against Pitt. Parker’s 4.0 sacks were a career high and tied the Clemson school record. With the win, the Tigers improved to 8-2, 7-1 in the ACC.
“We did a great job of managing adversity,” said Parker, We knew going into the game it was going to be tough.”
Parker tied the Clemson record with 4.0 sacks in the Tigers’ win over Pitt.
The sophomore from Phenix City, Alabama is the second Clemson player this year (Sept. 11, QB Cade Klubnik) that has earned Offensive Player of Week honors. It is also the 14th time a Clemson player has earned Walter Camp National Player of the Week honors since 2004.
This is the 21st 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. It is the nation’s longest running Player of Week award.
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) – 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.
