Roderick Daniels named AAC Special Teams Player of the Week
IRVING, Texas – SMU wide receiver Roderick Daniels Jr. was named the American Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week in a release by the conference on Monday.
This is the first time the Duncanville native has won the award in his collegiate career.
Daniels Jr. provided the backbreaking touchdown on special teams as SMU stayed atop the AAC standings with a 55-0 win at Temple this past Friday. Daniels, after the Mustangs forced a three-and-out on Temple’s first possession of the third quarter, returned the punt 67 yards for a touchdown, becoming the first SMU player to score on a punt return since 2013.
“Junior did a great job and, probably, that punt return for the touchdown is kind of like, everybody on the sideline, it just gassed everybody up, juiced them up,” SMU wide receivers coach Rob Likens said of Daniels. “Man, it was it was great to see that we went out there and did what we actually came together in the locker room and talked about doing in the second half and that was finishing, not having any letup whatsoever.
“We were on national TV and we knew that a lot of teams were sitting around at their dinner time watching our game across the country and we wanted to represent SMU in the light that we wanted to portray, and that was to be tough, finish, relentless.”
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The junior finished up his day with 105 all-purpose yards, his fourth career game with at least 100.
The Mustangs return to action this upcoming Saturday to take on Tulsa at home. Kick is set for 11 a.m. CT and can be seen on ESPNU.
