Week 10

UTSA quarterback, Owen McCown has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the tenth week of the college football season.

McCown completed 31-of-33 passes for 370 yards and four touchdowns in UTSA’s 48-26 win over Tulane. McCown completed his first 16 passes, a school record, on the way to a 93.9 percent completion percentage, tied for the second-highest mark in conference history and a UTSA record. This was McCown’s fifth 300-yard game as a Roadrunner.

Owen McCown is a graduate of Rusk High School in Rusk, Texas.

Week 9

North Texas quarterback, Drew Mestemaker has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the ninth week of the college football season.

Mestemaker rewrote the North Texas passing record book and had a performance that will go down as one of the most prolific in college football history in North Texas’s route to a 54-20 come-from-behind victory over Charlotte. The win moved the Mean Green to 7-1 on the season for the first time since 1977.

Mestemaker completed 37 of 49 pass attempts for a school and conference record 608 yards and four touchdowns. Mestemaker’s monster night marks the most yards an FBS player has thrown for since K.J. Costello threw for 623 yards for Mississippi State against LSU in 2020 and is the 16th best passing yardage total in FBS history. It’s the second-most by a freshman or redshirt freshman in FBS history behind Nevada’s David Neill, who threw for 611 in a loss to New Mexio State on Oct. 10 1998. Mestemaker had 16 passes of 15 or more yards, and the team’s previous best this season was nine.

Drew Mestemaker is a graduate of Vandegrift High School in Austin, Texas.

Week 8

Texas A&M quarterback, Marcel Reed has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the eighth week of the college football season.

Reed led the No. 4 Aggies to a win over Arkansas 45-42. Reed completed 23 passes on 32 attempts and tossed for 280 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 55 yards and one touchdown. The game marked the eighth contest in which Reed had at least one score on the ground and through the air.

Texas A&M improved their record to 7-0 for the first time since 1994 and 4-0 in conference play.

Marcel Reed is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, TN.

Week 7

Texas Tech running back, Cameron Dickey has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the seventh week of the college football season.

Dickey ran for a career-high 263 yards and two long touchdowns in a 42-17 victory over Kansas. Dickey sprinted 71 yards on the first offensive play for the Red Raiders and added a 55-yard TD run early in the fourth quarter. Dickey had 21 carries which was also a career best.

Dickey’s performance marked the most rushing yards in a single game by an FBS rusher this season and the most by a Big 12 rusher since Iowa State’s Abu Sama went for 276 yards on November 25, 2023 at Kansas State. It also marked the fifth-highest single-game rushing total by a Red Raider in school history and the most since Byron Hanspard set the Texas Tech record with 287 yards against Baylor in 1996.

Cameron Dickey is a graduate of Crockett High School in Austin, TX.

Week 6

Cincinnati quarterback, Brendan Sorsby has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the sixth week of the college football season.

Sorsby led Cincinnati to a 38-30 win over #14 Iowa State.

The junior quarterback was 13-of-25 for 214 yards and two touchdowns. Sorsby also carried the ball nine times for 64 yards and a rushing touchdown in the win.

The victory marked the highest-ranked win over an opponent in Nippert Stadium since Cincinnati defeated No. 7 Rutgers, 30-11, on November 18, 2006.

Brendan Sorsby is a graduate of Lake Dallas High School in Denton, TX.

Week 5

Virginia quarterback, Chandler Morris has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the fifth week of the college football season.

In a thrilling double overtime win over No. 8 Florida State 46-38, Morris tied his career high of five touchdowns (3 rush, 2 pass). Morris finished 26-for-35 with 229 yards passing and added 37 yards on the ground. He became the first Cavalier quarterback since 2019 to rush for three touchdowns in a game.

Morris ranks first in the ACC and No. 8 in FBS with 86 points responsible for. Virginia improves to 4-1 to start the year for the second-straight season.

Chandler Morris is a graduate of Highland Park HS in Highland Park, TX.

Week 4

TCU wide receiver, Eric McAlister has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the fourth week of the college football season.

McAlister put together one of the best wide receiver performances in program history to lift TCU to a 35-24 victory over SMU.

McAlister had a total of 254 receiving yards, the second most in a single game in program history. He also caught three touchdowns, which are the most by a Big-12 receiver this season. In addition, he had an impressive 145 yards after catch, and two of his touchdowns came in the fourth quarter after SMU took a narrow lead.

Eric McAlister is a graduate of Azle HS in Azle, TX.

Week 3

Texas A&M wide receiver, Mario Craver has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the third week of the college football season.

Craver registered a career-high 207 yards receiving on seven catches, including a career-best 86-yard touchdown in a win over Notre Dame 41-40.

Craver became the eighth player in school history to post a 200-yard receiving game. He also became the first Aggie with a 70-plus yard receiving touchdown in consecutive games and became only the second Aggie to reach the century mark in three consecutive games. In just three games Craver has totaled 443 receiving yards on 20 catches, surpassing his season total of 368 yards on 17 catches in 2024.

Mario Craver is a graduate of Clay-Chalkville HS in Birmingham, AL.

Week 2

Oklahoma quarterback, John Mateer has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the second week of the college football season.

Mateer completed 21 of 34 passes for 270 yards and one touchdown and had team highs of 19 rushes for 74 yards and two touchdowns to lead #18 Oklahoma to a 24-13 win over #15 Michigan.

Through two games this season, Mateer has completed 72% of his passes. His 662 passing yards are the second most by an OU quarterback through the first two games of a career (Josh Heupel had 773 in the first two games of the 1999 season).

John Mateer is a graduate of Little Elm High School in Little Elm, Texas.

Week 1

Georgia Tech quarterback, Haynes King has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the first week of the college football season.

Haynes King’s 45-yard touchdown run with 1:07 to go in the game lifted the Yellow Jackets to a season-opening 27-20 win at Colorado.

King rushed for 156 yards and three touchdowns on 19 carries (8.2 avg.). It was a new career high for rushing yards in a single game and his fourth 100-yard rushing game in 25 games at Georgia Tech.

King’s three touchdown runs (4, 17 and 45 yards) matched his career high and gives him six games with multiple rushing touchdowns as a Yellow Jacket. King moved into sixth in Georgia Tech history for career rushing yards by a quarterback with 1,480. King moved into fourth in Georgia Tech history for career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 24.

Haynes King is a graduate of Longview High School in Longview, Texas.

WEEK 1

Boise State running back, Ashton Jeanty has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the first week of the college football season.

Jeanty had 20 carries for 267 yards and six rushing touchdowns, both of which were program records and the latter of which matched the Mountain West record, in a 56-45 win at Georgia Southern.

The junior running back had two touchdown runs of 75 yards or more, opening the scoring with a 77-yard touchdown in the first quarter, which was the 11th-longest in program history. He added a 75-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter. Jeanty also averaged 13.4 yards per carry and turned in his third career 200-yard rushing game.

Ashton Jeanty is a graduate of Lone Star High School in Frisco, Texas.

WEEK 2

Texas quarterback, Quinn Ewers has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the second week of the college football season.

Quinn Ewers had an impressive performance in No. 3 Texas’ 31-12 road win over No. 10/9 Michigan.  Ewers completed 24-of-36 passes for 246 yards and three touchdowns.

Ewers has now won eight straight true road games since 2022, throwing 15 touchdowns with just one interception.  Texas’ 19-point win was its largest margin of victory against a top-10 team on the road since 1979 and the biggest against a top-10 team overall since 2005.

Quinn Ewers is a graduate of Southlake Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas.

WEEK 3

Texas quarterback, Arch Manning has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the third week of the college football season.

Arch Manning, after entering the game for an injured Quinn Ewers in the second quarter against UTSA, completed 9-of-12 pass attempts for 223 yards and four touchdowns.  Manning also had a 67-yard touchdown run in a 56-7 win.

Manning’s 75-yard touchdown pass tied for seventh-longest by a UT freshman and his 67-yard touchdown run was the longest ever by a UT freshman. This marked the first time in UT history that a player recorded a 65-yard-plus pass and run in the same game. Manning’s five (four passing and one rushing) touchdowns on the night are the most touchdowns accounted for by a UT freshman quarterback since Colt McCoy had six passing against Baylor on October 14, 2006.

Arch Manning is a graduate of Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

WEEK 4

Miami quarterback, Cam Ward has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the fourth week of the college football season.

Ward threw for 404 yards and three touchdowns in a 50-15 win over USF.  Ward completed 24-for-34 passes. After falling behind 15-14 in the second quarter, the Canes scored 36 consecutive points, shutting out USF 28-0 in the second half.

Ward, who has thrown for over 300 passing yards in all four games this season, has recorded over 15,000 yards passing in his career, making him the 13th player recognized by the NCAA to have reached that milestone.

Cam Ward is a graduate of Columbia High School in West Columbia, Texas.

WEEK 5

Alabama quarterback, Jalen Milroe has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the fifth week of the college football season.

Milroe had a late 75-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Williams that helped seal the 41-34 win over No. 2 Georgia. Milroe was 27-of-33 in the air, compiling a career-high 374 passing yards and two touchdowns. He also added 117 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries on the ground.

Jalen Milroe is a graduate of Tompkins High School in Katy, Texas.

WEEK 6

SMU quarterback, Kevin Jennings has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the sixth week of the college football season.

With the game tied going into the fourth quarter Jennings led SMU to a 34-27 victory over #22 Louisville on the road. Jennings was 21/27 passing for 281 yards. The sophomore quarterback also carried the ball 10 times for 113 yards and a touchdown.

SMU goes into a bye week 2-0 in conference play.

Kevin Jennings is a graduate of South Oak Cliff High School in Oak Cliff, Texas.

WEEK 7

Army quarterback, Bryson Daily has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the seventh week of the college football season.

Daily accounted for five touchdowns as Army extended the nation’s longest active winning streak to 10 games with a 44-10 victory against UAB.

Daily rushed for 136 yards and four touchdowns on 12 carries and completed 3 of 7 passes for 102 yards and a TD before coming out early in the third quarter. Daily, who registered his fifth consecutive game with at least 100 rushing yards, ranks eighth nationally at 123.0 yards per game and is third among FBS players with 14 rushing touchdowns.

Bryson Daily is a graduate of Abernathy High School in Abernathy, Texas.

WEEK 8

Baylor quarterback, Sawyer Robertson has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the eighth week of the college football season.

Robertson was an integral part of Baylor’s 59-point performance against Texas Tech, which included 21-of-32 passing, 274 yards through the air and a career high of five touchdown passes. The redshirt junior became the first Baylor quarterback to throw five touchdowns in a game since Seth Russell in 2015. The Bears’ 59 points were the most by an FBS program in Week Eight and tied for the most in a conference game in a Power Four league this season.

Sawyer Robertson is a graduate of Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas.

WEEK 9

Texas A&M quarterback, Marcel Reed has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the ninth week of the college football season.

Reed took over at quarterback in the third quarter with the Aggies trailing 17-7. Reed completed both of his passes for 70 yards and rushed for 62 yards on nine carries with three touchdowns. The No. 14 Aggies used a 31-point second half to down No. 8 LSU 38-23 in front of a home crowd of 108,000-plus.

With the victory the Aggies are off to their best start in SEC play in program history and they have defeated two top-10 opponents at home in the same season for the first time since 1989.

Marcel Reed is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, TN.

WEEK 10

Baylor running back, Bryson Washington has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the tenth week of the college football season.

Washington rushed for 196 yards and four touchdowns as the Bears defeated TCU, 37-34.  His 196 yards set a career high by 80 yards and were the most by a Bear since 2016. Washington also became the first Big 12 player to rush for four touchdowns in Conference play this season.

Baylor ran its winning streak to three-straight games and improves to 5-4 overall and 3-3 in Big 12.

Bryson Washington is a graduate of Franklin High School in Franklin, Texas.

WEEK 11

Colorado quarterback, Shedeur Sanders has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the eleventh week of the college football season.

Sanders completed 30 of his 43 passes for 291 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 16 yards and a touchdown in a 41-27 win over Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Sanders tied the program record of 20 consecutive games with a passing touchdown. Sanders ranks in the top three nationally in completions (250), completion percentage (72.9%) and passing touchdowns (24) while ranking in the top 10 in passing yards (2,882) this season.

Shedeur Sanders is a graduate of Trinity Christian School in Dallas, Texas.

WEEK 12

Clemson quarterback, Cade Klubnik has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the twelfth week of the college football season.

With the Clemson Tigers trailing and on their own 25-yard line with 1:36 to play, quarterback Cade Klubnik led the Tigers 75 yards in three plays for a winning score to lift Clemson to a 24-20 win at Pittsburgh. The winning score came on a 50-yard run from Klubnik. The junior quarterback finished 27-41 for 288 yards and two touchdowns through the air along with his rushing touchdown.

Cade Klubnik is a graduate of Westlake High School in Austin, Texas.

WEEK 13

Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the thirteenth week of the college football season.

Morton completed 37 of 53 pass attempts for 401 yards and four touchdowns in a 56-48 victory over Oklahoma State on the road. Morton’s 401 passing yards marked a career high and was the first 400-yard performance by a Red Raider since Tyler Shough finished with 436 yards in 2022 regular-season finale over Oklahoma.

Morton became the first Texas Tech quarterback to throw four or more touchdown passes three different times in a single season since Nic Shimonek in 2017. This was Texas Tech’s third road victory of the season and only its second in Stillwater since 2001.

Behren Morton is a graduate of Eastland High School in Eastland, Texas.

WEEK 14

Texas running back Quintrevion Wisner has been named The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week for the fourteenth week of the college football season.

Wisner had 33 rushes for a career-high 186 yards on the ground and two catches for 21 yards in helping lead Texas to a 17-7 road win in a renewal of its rivalry against No. 20 Texas A&M.

This was the second-consecutive game with over 150 rushing yards for Wisner. The 186 yards is the fourth-most ever by a Longhorn in the series history against Texas A&M. Wisner joined a group in the top five in that category that includes UT legends Cedric Benson, Ricky Williams, and Earl Campbell.

Quintrevion Wisner is a graduate of DeSoto High School in Glenn Heights, Texas.

TYLER, Texas – The Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce and SPORTyler announced today Kyle Trask, quarterback, University of Florida as the recipient of the 2020 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award presented by Earl Campbell. 

Trask received the award during The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award virtual ceremony January 28, 2021. 

“I’m honored to present the award to Kyle Trask,” Earl Campbell said. “All of these players had incredible seasons. They all deserved their place as a finalist.”

Kyle Trask threw for 4,283 yards and 43 touchdowns this season as he led one of the most explosive offenses in the country in the Florida Gators. 

The Manvel, Texas native led the FBS this season in total touchdowns (46) and touchdown passes, while ranking second in passing yards.

Trask’s three touchdown passes against Alabama in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game made him the ninth player in FBS history to throw at least 43 touchdown passes through the first 11 games of a season. Of those nine, Trask is one of three to accomplish the feat with fewer than 50 attempts per game.

Trask set a single-season school record with five 400-yard passing games; he was one of two FBS players this year and one of two SEC players (Mac Jones) since at least 1996 with five such games in a season.

Trask was responsible for 46 touchdowns (43 passing, 3 rushing), which is second on UF’s single season record list to Tim Tebow’s 55 (32 pass, 23 rush) from his 2007 Heisman-winning campaign. His 46 touchdowns are also tied with Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel (2013) for sixth on the SEC single-season record list.

Trask also broke the single-season school record for passing yards per game (356.9), narrowly finishing ahead of Rex Grossman’s 2001 season (354.2). 

The other four finalists for the award were:

Jaelon Darden, North Texas, WR, Senior.  Houston, TX (Eisenhower HS) Conference USA

D’Eriq King, Miami, QB, R-Senior.  Manvel, TX (Manvel HS) ACC

Sincere McCormick, UTSA, RB, Sophomore.  Converse, TX (Judson HS) Conference USA

Kellen Mond, Texas A&M, QB, Senior.  San Antonio, TX (IMG Academy) SEC

Sponsors for The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award virtual ceremony are: City of Tyler, Brookshire Grocery Company, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, Clements Fluids Management, LLC, Patterson Commercial Property Group, R.W. Fair Foundation, Southside Bank, TDI Air Conditioning/Sharon and James Wynne, Chesley and Ted W. Walters, Austin Bank, Tyler Morning Telegraph, American State Bank, BMW of Tyler, Prothro, Wilhelmi & Company, Texas Bank and Trust, Tyler Junior College, and University of Texas at Tyler.

THE EARL CAMPBELL TYLER ROSE AWARD 

The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, announced in 2012 by the Tyler Chamber and SPORTyler, recognizes the top offensive player in Division I football who also exhibits the enduring characteristics that define Earl Campbell: integrity, performance, teamwork, sportsmanship, drive, community, and tenacity; specifically tenacity to persist and determination to overcome adversity and injury in pursuit of reaching goals.

In addition, the nominee must meet one or more of the following criteria: born in Texas and/or graduated from a Texas High School and/or played at a Texas-based junior college or four-year Division I Texas college. 

The voting committee co-chaired by Kirk Bohls, Austin Statesman, and Phil Hicks, Tyler Morning Telegraph, included 43 broadcasters, commentators, and journalists from across the country as well as fans and the previous winners, Bryce Petty (2013), Trevone Boykin (2014), Greg Ward, Jr. (2015), D’Onta Foreman (2016), Baker Mayfield (2017) Kyler Murray (2018), and J.K. Dobbins (2019).