Barclay Named ACC's co-Offensive Back of the Week
10/31/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 31, 2005
Greensboro, NC - Wake Forest senior running back Chris Barclay earned Atlantic Coast Conference co-Offensive Back of the Week, the league announced on Monday. Barclay shared the award with Miami running back Tyrone Moss.
Barclay rushed 18 times for 204 yards and two touchdowns in a 44-6 win at Duke. Barclay had touchdown runs of 9 and 71 yards. In the process, Barclay became Wake Forest's all-time leading rusher and scorer. It was Barclay's third career 200-yard game, tied for the second-most in ACC history. Barclay also moved into 8th place in the ACC record book for career rushing yards. On Saturday, he passed Raymond Priester (Clemson) and James McDougald (Wake Forest).
Moss rushed for a career-high 195 yards on 24 carries and scored a career-high four touchdowns in Miami's 34-16 win over North Carolina. The Pompano Beach, Fla., junior averaged 8.1 yards per carry and his yardage total was the seventh-highest in Miami history. Moss became just the fifth Hurricane to score four touchdowns in one game.
Miami offensive tackle Eric Winston was tabbed the ACC's Offensive Lineman of the Week, Georgia Tech's Eric Henderson was named the Defensive Lineman of the Week, Florida State outside linebacker Ernie Sims was the ACC's Defensive Back of the Week, Florida State wide receiver/punt returner Willie Reid was the Special Teams Players of the Week and NC State running back Andre Brown earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors.
Barclay joins Jon Abbate, Micah Andrews, Ryan Plackemeier, Cory Randolph and Alphonso Smith as Wake Forest players who won weekly ACC honors previously this year.
More on Chris Barclay:
- With 204 yards on just 18 carries on Saturday, Chris Barclay became Wake Forest's all-time leading rusher. With 3,903 career yards, he now ranks 8th in ACC history. With two touchdowns, Barclay also became Wake Forest's all-time leading scorer.
- Barclay is on his way to becoming the first player to lead the ACC in rushing during the regular season in three straight seasons. He did it as a sophomore and a junior. This season, Barclay has 323 more rushing yards than anyone else in the ACC.
- Barclay has five 100-yard games this season (Clemson, Florida State, NC State, Duke and East Carolina). He has two 200-yard games in 2005 (Duke and East Carolina). He averages 124.8 yards per game and 121.3 vs. ACC opponents.
- With 998 yards this season, Barclay is just two yards away from becoming only the sixth player in ACC history to rush for 1,000 yards in three straight seasons. It was accomplished most recently by Warrick Dunn of Florida State.
- Barclay is 97 rushing yards and one touchdown away from becoming only the third player in ACC history to rush for 4,000 yards and 40 touchdowns and the first ACC player to do it in more than 20 years. He would join Ted Brown of NC State ('75-'78) and Robert Lavette of Georgia Tech ('81-'84). Only 30 players in NCAA history have ever accomplished that feat. Eight of those were Heisman Trophy winners (Marcus Allen, Ron Dayne, Tony Dorsett, Bo Jackson, Mike Rozier, Herschel Walker, Charles White and Ricky Williams) and an additional seven Heisman Trophy finalists (Eric Dickerson, Marshall Faulk, Ed Marinaro, Terry Miller, Anthony Thompson, LaDainian Tomlinson and Darren Sproles)
