Florida State offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons is the winner of the 2022 Wuerffel Trophy, it was introduced Thursday night reside on ESPN’s The Home Depot College Football Awards Show.
The Wuerffel Trophy, established in 2005 and named after 1996 Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel, is introduced yearly to the FBS participant who greatest combines exemplary neighborhood service with management achievement on and off the sector.
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Gibbons is the primary winner of faculty soccer’s premier award for neighborhood service from the ACC and solely the second from a Florida faculty, becoming a member of 2008 winner Tim Tebow. Gibbons might be acknowledged throughout the Heisman Trophy festivities this weekend in New York City and might be formally introduced his trophy in February on the All Sports Association Awards Banquet in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Gibbons, who was voted captain of the 2022 Allstate Good Works Team and winner of this 12 months’s Jim Tatum Award because the ACC’s high senior soccer scholar-athlete, has established a non-profit basis to lift funds for these in want. His basis companions with collegiate ambassadors throughout school soccer and connects with charitable causes they’re obsessed with, together with these with particular medical wants, procuring with kids locally and repairing injury brought on by pure disasters. His efforts have resulted in almost $500,000 being raised to help significant causes all through the school soccer neighborhood.
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Gibbons earned first-team All-ACC accolades as he blocked for probably the most explosive and environment friendly offenses within the nation this season. Florida State leads the nation with 88 performs of not less than 20 yards and is second nationally with seven landing drives of not less than 90 yards and with 15 landing drives of 80-plus yards. The Seminoles additionally lead the ACC and rank third nationally in third-down proportion, changing 51.9 p.c of their alternatives, and have scored on 26 of 28 purple zone possessions throughout their present five-game profitable streak whereas rating second within the convention with a 70.5 landing proportion this season within the purple zone. FSU is certainly one of three groups within the nation, and the one workforce within the ACC, averaging not less than 250 passing yards and not less than 210 speeding yards per recreation.
The St. Petersburg native, who was named the ACC’s Offensive Lineman of the Week following Florida State’s 45-3 win at Miami, has helped pave the way in which for Florida State to hurry for greater than 200 yards in a school-record-tying seven consecutive video games, the longest lively streak within the nation and FSU’s longest streak since 1987. The Seminoles lead the ACC in yards per rush and speeding yards per recreation, averaging 5.50 yards per rush to rank tenth within the nation, and gaining 217.8 yards per recreation, the Twelfth-highest common nationally. Florida State’s offense is also ninth within the nation with a median of 6.86 yards per play, Thirteenth gaining a median of 475.7 yards of whole offense per recreation and seventeenth with a median of 36.2 factors per recreation. FSU is also first within the ACC and eleventh within the nation averaging 13.94 yards per completion and third within the ACC and twentieth nationally in go effectivity.
Gibbons and the Thirteenth-ranked FSU soccer workforce will full their season on the Cheez-It Bowl in Orlando towards Oklahoma on Dec. 29 at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN.
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