Week 1 is already in the rearview, and the SEC handed out its first weekly hardware of the season on Monday afternoon with a pair of offensive standouts sharing the spotlight.
LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt and Ole Miss wide receiver Deuce Alexander were named co-offensive players of the week after big-opening performances that helped power their teams to wins.
Leavitt was the engine behind LSU’s 51-10 rout of Clemson. He completed passes for 230 yards and added 113 rushing yards, the most on the team, while accounting for three total touchdowns in the blowout.
Alexander did his damage in a much tighter setting. In Ole Miss’s narrow win over Louisville on Sunday night, he hauled in two 62-yard touchdown catches from Trinidad Chambliss and finished with five receptions for 159 yards and those two scores.
The conference’s weekly honors list also included co-defensive players of the week Eric Winters of Auburn and Rasheem Biles of Texas, along with co-special teams players of the week Isaiah Sategna of Oklahoma and Lucas Carneiro of Ole Miss. Jordan Seaton of LSU was named offensive lineman of the week, Jordan Ross of LSU earned defensive lineman of the week, and Tennessee’s Faizon Brandon took freshman of the week honors.
Two of the winners made the kind of plays that swing games at the last second. Winters delivered a game-saving tackle at the goal line to stop Baylor from taking the lead with only seconds left. Carneiro then came through with a 48-yard field goal to lift Ole Miss to a 41-38 win at the final buzzer.
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