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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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