South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers earns National Player of the Week honors
South Carolina redshirt freshman quarterback LaNorris Sellers was spectacular on Saturday as he led his Gamecocks to victory over a ranked Missouri team. Sellers logged five touchdown passes and just under 400 yards of offense as he continued his Superman-like run.
His big day earned him a well-deserved SEC Offensive Player of the Week Award. On Tuesday, though, Sellers reeled in another honor as the Walter Camp Football Foundation named him the National Player of the Week.
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From the South Carolina Athletics press release:
University of South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers has been named the Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced today.
Previously, Sellers was selected as the SEC’s Offensive Player of the Week, was named to the Davey O’Brien Award’s Great 8 for Week 12 and was recognized as one of the Manning Award’s “Stars of the Week” for his performance against Missouri last Saturday.
It is the seventh time since 2004 that a South Carolina player has earned Walter Camp National FBS Player of Week honors, and the first since Nov. 20, 2022 (QB Spencer Rattler).
Sellers, a 6-3, 242-pounder, turned in the best game of his career, completing 21-of-30 passes for a career-high 353 yards and a career-high five touchdowns in the Gamecocks win over No. 24/21 Missouri, 34-30, last Saturday to secure the Mayor’s Cup. He added 45 yards rushing, for a career-best 398 yards of total offense.
The redshirt freshman from Florence, S.C. led the offense to touchdown drives in the final two minutes at the end of each half, including a six-play, 70-yard drive in 47 seconds for the game-winning touchdown with 15 seconds remaining in the contest.
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Sellers joined Spencer Rattler, Tommy Suggs, Jeff Grantz, Steve Taneyhill (twice), Syvelle Newton, Dylan Thompson and Jake Bentley as Gamecocks with five or more TD passes in a game.
Sellers has led the Gamecocks to wins over three nationally-ranked opponents in consecutive weeks for the first time in school history. He has been honored by the SEC each of the last three weeks, earning Freshman of the Week honors after his performance in the win over No. 10/11 Texas A&M and again following his efforts in the win at No. 24/25 Vanderbilt. Sellers was also the Davey O’Brien co-National Quarterback of the Week following the Texas A&M win.
This is the 21st 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. It is the nation’s longest running Player of the Week award.
Sellers and the No. 19/19 Gamecocks (7-3, 5-3 SEC) will host FCS Wofford (5-6, 3-5 SoCon) on Saturday, Nov. 23, at Williams-Brice Stadium. Game time is set for 4 pm ET and the contest will be streamed on ESPN+/SEC Network+. Jay Alter will have the call with Rocky Boiman providing the analysis. Ashley Stroehlein will work the sideline for the broadcast.
