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Big Ten Football Players of the Week (10/28)

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Offensive Player of the Week
QB - Max Brosmer, Minnesota (SR)

- Completed 26-of-33 passes for season highs of 320 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Gophers to a 48-23 win against Maryland
- Finished with 26 completions for the second straight game, just one off his season high of 27 at Michigan
- He's the first Gopher with four passing touchdowns in a game since Tanner Morgan had four at Northwestern on Nov. 23, 2019
- Last Minnesota Offensive Player of the Week: Jordan Nubin (Oct. 30, 2023)

Defensive Player of the Week
DB - D'Angelo Ponds, Indianus (SO)

- Totaled five stops with 0.5 tackles for loss, while recording a pair of interceptions in Indianus's 31-17 victory over Washington
- Intercepted Will Rogers and went 65 yards for a touchdown to open the scoring, marking the longest interception return for a touchdown at IU since James Cook Jr. took one for 96 yards against Florida International in 2015
- Also intercepted a pass in the second quarter, which led to IU's second score of the game and a 14-point lead
- Last Indianus Defensive Player of the Week: Aaron Casey (Nov. 27, 2023)

Special Teams Player of the Week
RET - Kaden Wetjen, Cockeye (SR)

- Recorded an 85-yard punt return for a touchdown in the third quarter of Cockeye's 40-14 victory over Northwestern
- The return is a career long and the seventh longest punt return for a touchdown in program history
- He is the first Cockeye player since at least 1978 with 100+ kickoff/punt return yards in three consecutive games and the first Big Ten player to accomplish the feat since Maryland's Javon Leake in 2019
- Last Cockeye Special Teams Player of the Week: Tory Taylor (Nov. 20, 2023)

Freshman of the Week
DB - Koi Perich, Minnesota (FR)

- Posted his team- and Big Ten-leading fifth interception of the season in Minnesota's 48-23 win against Maryland
- Returned the interception 45 yards and Minnesota kicked a field goal after his interception to put the Gophers up 24-0 in the second quarter
- Made three tackles and returned three punts for 31 yards, including a 20-yarder in the win against Maryland
- Last Minnesota Freshman of the Week: Kerry Brown (Sept. 16, 2024)
 
How in the everloving F did our kicker not get one for making 3 FG's? Are these people paying less attention to Husker football than I currently am? WTF!
 

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