SDSU’s Trey White has been added to the Bednarik Award Midseason Watch List – Mountain West Conference

PHILADELPHIA – San Diego State sophomore Trey White was named to the midseason watch list for the Chuck Bednarik Award, given annually to the outstanding defensive player in college football.

As an EDGE player, White has 32 tackles (24 solo) in six games this season, including 15 tackles for loss and 11 sacks, six quarterback hurries, two pass breakups and a forced fumble. The San Diego native is averaging 1.83 sacks per game, which would be an NCAA FBS record (NCAA defensive stats date back to 2000) for most sacks per game in a season, just ahead of Arizona State’s Terrell Suggs (1.71 in 2002) and Louisville’s Elvis Dumervil (1.67 in 2005) and Syracuse’s Dwight Freeney (1.46 in 2001). White is already seventh in SDSU single-season history with 11 sacks, trailing only Mike Douglass (21.0 in 1976), Brett Faryniarz (13.0 in 1987), Andy Coviello (12.5 in 1991) and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (12.0 in 1997 and 1999). ) and current Kansas City boss Cameron Thomas (11.5 in 2021).

White’s 1.83 sacks per game is more than 43 other FBS teams and leads the country in sacks (11.0), sacks per game (1.83), tackles for loss (15.0), tackles for loss per Game (2.50) and tackles for loss yards (91) and ranks second in sack yards (60). According to Pro Football Focus, White ranks fourth nationally in quarterback pressure (27). He has had four straight games with multiple sacks, including three apiece on September 28 at Central Michigan and on October 5 against Hawai’i, en route to his first Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week being named on October 7 his career.

Earlier this week, White was named a midseason first-team All-America selection by the College Football Network and a second-team selection by The Athletic.

The Bednarik Award has been presented to the college defensive player of the year since 1994 and is named in honor of Chuck “Concrete Charlie” Bednarik, who was an All-American player at Penn and later an All-Pro linebacker and center for the university for several years of Pennsylvania was Philadelphia Eagles. He is a member of the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame and was the last NFL player to be a full-time player on both offense and defense.

Semifinalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award will be announced on November 12, with winners announced at the ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards show on December 12, 2024. The formal presentation of the Chuck Bednarik Award will take place on Friday at the Maxwell Football Club Awards, March 14, 2025 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.