Walter Camp Honors Georgia Tech’s King and JMU’s Green
The newly ranked Dukes won their 11th straight game dating to last year. On the Defensive side Green recorded a career-high nine tackles, including 3.0 for losses, and 2.5 quarterback sacks as 25th-ranked James Madison (8-0, 5-0 Sun Belt.
By 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 October 28th.
Quarterback Hayes King from Georgia Tech took home the offensive award and Jalen Green from James Madison University earn defensive honors.
King totaled 377 yards of total offense (287 passing, 90 rushing) as Georgia Tech defeated 17th-ranked North Carolina, 46-42. The Texas A&M transfer completed 23-of-30 passes and threw for four touchdowns as the Rambling Wreck improved to 4-4, 3-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Tech shredded the Tar Heels defense for 635 yards in a shootout that was finally decided by a big hit on defense.
“This week we preached about execution. We thought we had a good game plan tonight and we were gonna’ use it the first chance we got,” said King.
The sophomore from Longview. Texas is the third Georgia Tech player to earn Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week honors since 2004, joining Jamel Golden (DB, Oct. 25, 2015) and Justin Thomas (RB, Oct. 29, 2016).
“This man here (Hayes King} as good as he is cannot win every game by himself. We challenged everyone around him to step up and play complementary football. And they did,” said the Tech head coach.
The newly ranked Dukes won their 11th straight game dating to last year. On the Defensive side Green recorded a career-high nine tackles, including 3.0 for losses, and 2.5 quarterback sacks as 25th-ranked James Madison (8-0, 5-0 Sun Belt.
The junior from Baltimore is the first James Madison player to earn Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week honors.
His performance set a new Sun Belt Conference single-season sacks record, as he now has 15.5, passing the previous record of 13.5 by Arkansas State’s Javon Rolland-Jones in 2016.
Green leads the nation in both sacks (15.5) and tackles for loss (21.0), and he’s just one sack shy of tying JMU’s single-season record of 16.5, set by John Daka in 2019.
This is the 20th 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. It is the nation’s longest running Player of Week award.
Walter Camp is “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.
