Marshall University Athletics
Johnson, Holmes Take Player of the Week Honors
10/27/2014 12:00:00 AM | Football
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-Marshall running back Devon Johnson and linebacker Jermaine Holmes were named Conference USA Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively.
Johnson ran for a school-record 272 yards on 24 carries with four touchdowns in Marshall's 35-19 win over Florida Atlantic. Three of those four touchdowns came on runs of 58, 62 and 66 yards. He helped lead a Marshall offense that gained 546 yards on just 59 plays (9.3 per play). Johnson is second nationally in total rushing yards (1,203), fourth in rushing touchdowns (15), rushing yards per game (158.38) and yards per carry (8.78). This is his second weekly honor in 2014. Johnson is the only the third Herd player to get C-USA weekly honor twice in the same season, joining running back Ahmad Bradshaw in 2006 and punter Kase Whitehead in 2011. Johnson also picked up the College Football Performance Awards’ national running back of the week honor Monday.
Holmes racked up 18 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one forced fumble. He led a Marshall defense that held the Owls scoreless over the game's final 32 minutes and allowed just 4.3 yards per play to go along with a 7-19 clip on third down and 1-3 on fourth in that span. The 18 tackles were the most by a Marshall player since 2010.
Overall in Marshall’s 10 seasons in the league, Rakeem Cato has won it three times (co-player two of those three), with Johnson, Bradshaw, Whitehead and Vinny Curry twice.
The Herd (8-0 overall, 4-0 C-USA), who is ranked 23rd in both the Associated Press Top 25 and the Amway USA Today Coaches Poll, is on a bye the weekend, before traveling to Hattiesburg, Ms. to take on Southern Miss on Saturday, Nov. 8.
Marshall football – Conference USA Players of the Week
2014
Oct. 6 – RB Devon Johnson, Offense.
Oct. 13 – QB Rakeem Cato Offense (co-player).
Oct. 27 – RB Devon Johnson, Offense; LB Jermaine Holmes, Defense.
2013
Nov. 4 – QB Rakeem Cato, Offense.
Dec. 2 – DE Gary Thompson, Defense.
2012
Sept. 24 – P Tyler Williams, Special Teams.
Oct. 1 – WR Tommy Shuler, Offense.
Nov. 5 – QB Rakeem Cato, Offense (co-player).
2011
Sept. 12 – LB George Carpenter, Defense; P Kase Whitehead, Special Teams.
Oct. 3 – LB Tyson Gale, Defense; P Kase Whitehead, Special Teams.
Oct. 17 – DE Vinny Curry, Defense.
2010
Sept. 13 – DE Vinny Curry, Defense.
Nov. 29 – LB Mario Harvey, Defense.
2009
Sept. 21 – DE Albert McClellan, Defense.
2008
Sept. 22 – WR Darius Passmore, Offense (co-player).
Nov. 3 – LB Maurice Kitchens, Defense.
2007
None
2006
Oct. 23 – RB Ahmad Bradshaw, Offense.
Nov. 6 – LB Matt Couch, Defense; DB Jon Moravec, Special Teams.
Nov. 20 – RB Ahmad Bradshaw, Offense.
2005
Oct. 17 – DB Ivan Clark, Special Teams (co-player).
Oct. 31 – LB Dennis Thornton, Defense (co-player); KR Chubb Small, Special Teams.
