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Augusta, Kan. —
Gazette sports report
Quarterback
Todd Reesing had his name added to another national award watch list when he was tabbed to the 2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List last Friday.
Reesing has already been placed on watch lists for the Davey O’Brien (nation’s top quarterback) and Johnny Unitas (top senior quarterback) Awards this preseason.
Only four quarterbacks in the country returning this year have averaged more than Reesing’s 261.3 career passing yards per game. In addition only five quarterbacks nationally return having thrown more than Reesing’s 68 career touchdown passes and average of 21.3 completions per game.
Reesing enters the 2009 season ranked among Big 12 Conference career leaders. With one more season to play, Reesing already ranks seventh in career touchdown passes (68), 10th in career completions percentage (64.1), 10th in lowest interception percentage (2.3 percent), and 10th in career total offensive yards (8,105).
He shares the league record for consecutive pass attempts without an interception with 213 in a stretch during 2007 (tied with Reggie McNeal of Texas A&M).
The senior from Austin, Texas has rewritten the Kansas record books while starting 26 games in the last two seasons. He has guided KU to a combined 20-6 record in the last two years while passing for 3,486 yards as a sophomore and 3,888 as a junior.
Defensive back
Kansas football safety Darrell Stuckey has been named as one of 31 players on the Jim Thorpe Award Watch List announced this week. The award is given annually to the nation’s top defensive back.
The 2008 All-Big 12 First Team selection is one of five players from the Big 12 Conference on the list. Stuckey, a 6-1, 205-pound senior from Kansas City, Kan. proved to be one of the nation’s top safeties a year ago as he recorded 98 tackles and five interceptions.
His 98 tackles were second on the team and were the most by a Jayhawk defensive back since 2003. He also broke up seven passes to rank second on the team, while his five interceptions topped last year’s squad.
His best game in 2008 came in the victory against Missouri when he recorded six tackles, two interceptions, one pass broken up, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. For his efforts he was named the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
Wide receivers
Dezmon Briscoe and Kerry Meier were both named to the watch list for the Biletnikoff Award it was announced on Tuesday. The duo was the only pair of teammates to make the list.
Gazette sports report
Quarterback
Todd Reesing had his name added to another national award watch list when he was tabbed to the 2009 Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List last Friday.
Reesing has already been placed on watch lists for the Davey O’Brien (nation’s top quarterback) and Johnny Unitas (top senior quarterback) Awards this preseason.
Only four quarterbacks in the country returning this year have averaged more than Reesing’s 261.3 career passing yards per game. In addition only five quarterbacks nationally return having thrown more than Reesing’s 68 career touchdown passes and average of 21.3 completions per game.
Reesing enters the 2009 season ranked among Big 12 Conference career leaders. With one more season to play, Reesing already ranks seventh in career touchdown passes (68), 10th in career completions percentage (64.1), 10th in lowest interception percentage (2.3 percent), and 10th in career total offensive yards (8,105).
He shares the league record for consecutive pass attempts without an interception with 213 in a stretch during 2007 (tied with Reggie McNeal of Texas A&M).
The senior from Austin, Texas has rewritten the Kansas record books while starting 26 games in the last two seasons. He has guided KU to a combined 20-6 record in the last two years while passing for 3,486 yards as a sophomore and 3,888 as a junior.
Defensive back
Kansas football safety Darrell Stuckey has been named as one of 31 players on the Jim Thorpe Award Watch List announced this week. The award is given annually to the nation’s top defensive back.
The 2008 All-Big 12 First Team selection is one of five players from the Big 12 Conference on the list. Stuckey, a 6-1, 205-pound senior from Kansas City, Kan. proved to be one of the nation’s top safeties a year ago as he recorded 98 tackles and five interceptions.
His 98 tackles were second on the team and were the most by a Jayhawk defensive back since 2003. He also broke up seven passes to rank second on the team, while his five interceptions topped last year’s squad.
His best game in 2008 came in the victory against Missouri when he recorded six tackles, two interceptions, one pass broken up, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. For his efforts he was named the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
Wide receivers
Dezmon Briscoe and Kerry Meier were both named to the watch list for the Biletnikoff Award it was announced on Tuesday. The duo was the only pair of teammates to make the list.
The award is given annually to the nation’s top wide receiver. Last year Meier was one of 10 candidates named late in the season for the award, which eventually was won by Michael Crabtree of Texas Tech.
Meier, a senior from Pittsburg, Kan., established a school single-season record with 97 receptions, which he turned into 1,045 yards and eight touchdowns last season. The 2008 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection heads into the 2009 season as the nation’s second-leading returning wide receiver by receptions (7.46 per game).
Meier had five 100-yard receiving games in 2008. He and Briscoe share the school single-game reception record as Meier had 14 vs. Missouri and Briscoe had 14 vs. Minnesota in the Insight Bowl.
Briscoe, a junior from Dallas, Texas, heads into 2009 as the nation’s second-leading returning wide receiver by yards (108.23 per game last year). Last season Briscoe set school single-season records with 1,407 yards and 15 touchdowns, while pulling in 92 balls.
Briscoe earned All-Big 12 Second Team and SI.com All-America Honorable Mention honors last year. His 269 yards at Oklahoma were the most in a game in the nation in 2008. He also had seven 100-yard receiving games on the year.
