PRINCE, BELL, GREENWELL EARN C-USA PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS

DALLAS – After hauling in three catches for 136 yards and two touchdowns in a 40-6 win on the road at North Texas, UAB TE Gerrit Prince brought home Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week honors. UTSA DL Trumane Bell II was named Defensive Player of the Week following the Roadrunners’ 27-13 win at home against Middle Tennessee with 2.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks and a forced fumble. UAB P Kyle Greenwell earned Special Teams Player of the Week plaudits after averaging 51.8 yards per punt on five attempts, including a career-long 73-yarder at North Texas. The 2021 C-USA Players of the Week awards are presented by Surf & Turf Golf and are voted on by a panel of the league’s media.

Prince had three catches for a career-high 136 yards and two touchdowns in UAB’s 40-6 victory at North Texas. Prince had touchdown catches of 42 and 61 yards, and a third reception of 33 yards and finished the game with an average of 45.3 yards per catch. It also marked Prince’s third career multi-touchdown game. He is the team’s leading receiver with seven catches for 204 yards with three touchdowns and leads the nation in yards per reception, with 29.14.

Bell led a dominant defensive showing for UTSA in a 27-13 victory over Middle Tennessee in the Conference USA opener on Saturday at the Alamodome. The Dallas native registered four tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, a pair of sacks, two quarterback hurries and a forced fumble to help the Roadrunners hold the Blue Raiders to 199 yards of offense and keep them off the scoreboard until the final three and a half minutes of the game. Bell posted a sack in the second quarter that was a loss of 11 yards and then had a strip-sack early in the fourth quarter that resulted in a 3-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Lorenzo Dantzler. Bell and the UTSA defense yielded only eight rushing yards to the Blue Raiders, tied for the third-fewest allowed in a game in program history. The Roadrunners currently rank 10th in the nation in total defense with a conference-best 244.3 yards per game.

Greenwell averaged a career-best 51.8 yards per punt on five attempts, including a career-long 73-yarder in UAB’s win at North Texas. Greenwell had two punts travel over 50 yards, and downed one inside the 20. His massive punts flipped field position and helped the Blazers hold the Mean Green to just six points.

2021 WINNERS

Offensive Player of the Week – Aug. 30 – WR Jacob Cowing, UTEP, Sept. 6 – QB Chris Reynolds, Charlotte, Sept. 13 – QB Bailey Zappe, WKU and QB N’Kosi Perry, Florida Atlantic, Sept. 20 – TE Gerrit Prince, UAB

Defensive Player of the Week – Aug. 30 – S Dy’Vonne Inyang, UTEP, Sept. 6 – LB Eli Neal, Marshall, Sept. 13 – DB BeeJay Williamson, Louisiana Tech, Sept. 20 – DL Trumane Bell II, UTSA

Special Teams Player of the Week – Aug. 30 – K Gavin Baechle, UTEP, Sept. 6 – K Hunter Duplessis, UTSA, Sept. 13 – PR Sheldon Jones, UTSA, Sept. 20 – P Kyle Greenwell, UAB

-ConferenceUSA.com-