Offensive Player of the Week: Bear Bachmeier, QB, BYU and Patrick Overmyer, TE, Houston
Defensive Player of the Week: Owen Long, LB, Arizona State and Ethan Wesloski, LB, Oklahoma State
Special Teams Player of the Week: Liam Dougherty, P, Houston and Sam Keltner, K, Oklahoma State
Freshman of the Week: Cardae Mack, RB, Arizona State
Offensive Line of the Week: Utah
Defensive Line of the Week: BYU
IRVING, Texas -- Arizona State, BYU, Houston and Oklahoma State all earned multiple Monster Energy Big 12 Football weekly honors as Utah took home an award for its offensive line play. Four of this week’s award winners have previously earned recognition this season, including three-time honorees Sam Keltner and Ethan Wesloski from Oklahoma State.
Bachmeier earned his second offensive honor of the season after throwing for 329 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 109 yards in BYU’s 24-10 victory over Iowa State. The sophomore quarterback picked up the load for the Cougars’ rushing attack with running LJ Martin out and averaged 12 yards a carry. Bachmeier became the first BYU quarterback to throw for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in a game since Taysom Hill in 2013.
Becoming the third tight end in Big 12 history to catch four touchdown passes in a game,
Overmyer ended his day with eight catches for 83 yards in Houston’s 35-16 win at K-State. He tied the NCAA record for touchdown catches in a game by a tight end and became the first Houston player with a quartet of touchdown receptions in a game since Patrick Edwards in 2011.
Long earned his second weekly award of the season with his third consecutive double-digit tackle game in Arizona State’s 30-12 win over Hawai’i. Long’s 10 total tackles spearheaded a Sun Devil defense that held the Warriors to 12 points, 64 rushing yards and a 7-of-19 conversion rate on third downs. Long is five tackles shy of 250 for his career and ranks in the top 15 among all active FBS players.
Tallying a career-high 17 total tackles for the second game in a row,
Wesloski is the only player in FBS with multiple games of 17 or more tackles this season. Four of the McKinney, Texas native’s tackles on Saturday kept UCF short of the line of gain on third down in Oklahoma State’s 42-28 win. He has now led the Cowboys in tackles in four of the team’s five games this season.
Dougherty launched three punts for 178 yards for an impressive average of 59.3 yards per kick, including a booming 74-yard punt. The 74 yarder was the sixth-longest punt in UH history and the fifth longest in FBS this season. His 59.3 average also set a program record.
Connecting on field goals from 40 and 29 yards out,
Keltner was a perfect six-of-six kicking in OSU’s 42-28 win over UCF. The sophomore has now made his first 12 field goal attempts in a Cowboy uniform, which is the longest streak to start a career in program history. It's also the longest streak by a Cowboy since Tanner Brown made 16 straight spanning the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Mack made the most of his start in ASU’s win over Hawai’i on Saturday with 13 carries for 154 yards and two touchdowns. Filling in for an injured running back room, Mack averaged 11.8 yards per carry thanks to a 67-yard scamper into the end zone in the third quarter. He rushed for the most yards by an Arizona State freshman since Keegan Herring ran for 197 yards in 2005.
Utah’s offensive line propelled the Utes to 541 yards of total offense in a 41-24 win over Kansas in Salt Lake City. The unit opened up running lanes for 283 yards on the ground, including running back Wayshawn Parker’s 171 yards on 16 carries. Utah also amassed 32 first downs against the Jayhawks, tying for ninth-most in program history.
Picking up its first defensive line award of the season, the
BYU front helped hold Iowa State to just 10 points and 200 yards of total offense in the Cougars’ win. The Cyclones entered Saturday’s game averaging 197.4 rushing yards per game but ran for just 94 against the BYU defense. ISU’s 200-yard day on offense was its lowest since 2018.