Arkansas’s Adams
conference special
teams player of year
Arkansas receiver Joe Adams was named SEC Special Teams Player of the Year by the conference office Wednesday.
The senior earned the award after leading the NCAA in punt return average (16.19 yards a return) and touchdowns (3). His average yards a return is slightly more than LSU’s Tyrann Mathieu (16.15 yards), who is a Heisman Trophy finalist.
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Adams earned first-team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press and conference coaches earlier this week. The Little Rock native is the second Arkansas player to be named SEC Special Teams Player of the Year, joining former running back Felix Jones (2007).
Other SEC individual awards announced Wednesday included coach of the year (LSU’s Les Miles), offensive player of the year (Alabama’s Trent Richardson), defensive player of the year (LSU’s Morris Claiborne) and freshman of the year (South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney). Alabama’s Barrett Jones also received the Jacobs Blocking Trophy and was named scholar-athlete of the Year.
— Arkansas News Bureau