Two Mountaineers Share Big 12 Weekly Honors

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia collected a pair of weekly award winners introduced earlier at present by the Big 12 Conference.
 
Running again Tony Mathis Jr. was named co-offensive participant of the week, sharing the award with TCU quarterback Max Duggan, whereas Casey Legg picked up co-special groups participant of the week accolades. He shared the particular groups award with Oklahoma State’s Tanner Brown.
 
Mathis Jr. ran for a career-high 163 yards and scored two touchdowns in West Virginia’s spectacular, 43-40 come-from-behind victory over Baylor final Thursday night time in Morgantown.
 
The Orlando, Florida, resident scored a 7-yard landing within the first quarter and added a 34-yard TD jaunt late within the sport. His 163 yards had been probably the most by a Mountaineer operating again since Leddie Brown ran for 195 in opposition to Kansas in 2020.
 
Mathis has regained the crew lead in speeding with 459 yards. He can also be averaging a formidable 5.0 yards per tote with 5 touchdowns.
 
Legg continued his excellent streak by booting a pair of discipline targets, together with the 23-yard game-winner with 33 seconds left. He is now 10-for-10 for the season and exhibits 11 multi-field objective video games for his profession. The Charleston resident is eighth in program historical past in profession discipline targets made (36) and kick scoring (183).
 
Texas linebacker Jaylan Ford was named the convention’s defensive participant of the week.
 
It’s the second time this season WVU gamers have been acknowledged on the Big 12’s weekly honor roll. Freshman operating again CJ Donaldson was named the league’s newcomer of the week after his spectacular faculty debut in opposition to Pitt on Sept. 1.
 
West Virginia (3-3, 1-2) resumes Big 12 play this Saturday at Texas Tech (3-3, 1-2). The sport in Lubbock will kick off at 3 p.m. (ET) and shall be televised nationally on FS1.
 
Additionally, the Big 12 Conference has introduced that ESPN and Fox will make the most of a six-day window for West Virginia’s Oct. 29 house date in opposition to eighth-ranked TCU. The Horned Frogs boosted their document to 6-0 with a 43-40 victory over Oklahoma State final Saturday, and face No. 17 Kansas State in Ft. Worth this weekend.
 
Tickets for West Virginia’s three remaining house video games in opposition to TCU, Oklahoma (Nov. 12) and Kansas State (Nov. 19) are on sale by the Mountaineer Ticket Office and may be bought on-line by logging on to WVUGAME.com.