One player from a Power Five school and another from a Non-Power Five program have laid claim to a top weekly national honor.
As it does every Sunday, the fine folks at the Walter Camp Foundation announce its national Players of the Week. This week, those honors go to Alabama’s Blake Sims and East Carolina’s Zeek Bigger.
Sims completed 23-of-33 passes for 445 yards and four touchdowns as the Crimson Tide defeated Florida, 42-21. Sims’ 445 passing yards were the second-highest single-game total in school history. Two of his touchdown passes went for 87 and 79 yards as the Tide improved to 4-0 to start a season for the seventh consecutive year.
Sims also became the first UA quarterback to win Camp weekly honors.
On the defensive side, Bigger posted a career-high 17 tackles -- seven of which were solos -- and returned an interception 46 yards for a touchdown as pasted in-state rival North Carolina by the score 70-41. Bigger had 11 of his tackles in the first half.
Bigger is the first-ever ECU player, either offensively or defensively, honored by the Camp Foundation as its Player of the Week.
ECU, incidentally, has now beaten ACC teams in back-to-back weekends for the first time in school history, and have won four straight against that conference dating back to last season. UNC has been a victim twice in that span, while North Carolina State and Virginia Tech were victims once.
