Southern defensive end Jordan Lewis named Buchanan Award finalist

Southern defensive finish Jordan Lewis was in diapers the final time an HBCU athlete received the Buck Buchanan Award.

Now, the Jaguars’ sack specialist is on the verge of changing into the first-ever Southwestern Athletic Convention athlete to win the Buchanan Award, and the primary HBCU athlete to be named FCS nationwide defensive participant of the yr since 2002.

STATS Carry out invited Lewis to the award’s announcement after a 40-person panel voted him into the highest three finalists in a discipline of 18 defensive gamers from across the Soccer Championship Subdivision. The announcement is a part of the FCS Nationwide Awards present, set to air on Bally Sports activities Regional Networks on Could 15. Bally Sports activities Regional Networks had been previously referred to as Fox Sports activities Regional Networks.

The newly-minted SWAC defensive participant of the yr led the nation within the common season in sacks (10.5), tackles for loss (15), sacks per recreation (2.1), TFLs per recreation (3), sort out yardage for loss (82) and sack yardage (73), serving to the Nineteenth-ranked Jaguars end the Spring 2023 season with a 5-1 file.

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Lewis earned SWAC defensive participant of the week honors twice for performances in opposition to Alabama State and Jackson State.

Lewis’ competitors for the award features a pair of linebackers, Presbyterian’s Colby Campbell and VMI’s Stone Snyder. If Lewis wins, he would be the third HBCU participant to win the award named after the Grambling State Corridor of Famer — North Carolina A&T defensive finish Chris McNeil (1997) and Bethune Cookman defensive again Rashean Mathis (2002).