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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Suntarine Perkins Named Walter Camp National FBS Player of the Week
10/29/2024 | Football
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Ole Miss football sophomore defensive end Suntarine Perkins has been named the Walter Camp FBS National Defensive Player of the Week for games ending October 26, as announced by the Walter Camp Football Foundation on Tuesday.
Perkins was part of an SEC sweep of this week's Walter Camp award alongside Arkansas quarterback Taylen Green, who won the offensive award. The Walter Camp National Player of the Week award is the nation's longest running weekly honor in its 21st year overall. Perkins is now the fifth recipient of the Walter Camp weekly award in Ole Miss history, as well as the first Rebel defensive player to ever win.
This joins an SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week award this week for Perkins, who is coming off one of the best pass rushing performances in Ole Miss history against Oklahoma. Perkins ended the day with 11 tackles, 5.0 of which were for a loss and 4.0 coming via the quarterback sack. Those 4.0 sacks are the most by any individual Rebel defender since 1993, when Cassius Ware notched 4.0 sacks against Georgia, while Perkins' 5.0 tackles for loss are the most by a Rebel since Khari Coleman's 5.0 against Troy in the 2022 season opener.
Perkins helped lead Ole Miss to 10 total sacks in the Rebels' 26-14 win over the Sooners last week, tied for the second-most in program history and the most ever surrendered by an Oklahoma offense.
On the year, Perkins is tied for the SEC lead and ranks fourth nationally at 8.5 sacks, and those 8.5 already tie him for ninth on the Ole Miss single-season list with Greg Hardy (2008) and Renard Brown (1995). In TFL, Perkins ranks second in the conference and is tied for fourth in the FBS.
Ole Miss hits the road to take on Arkansas this Saturday, Nov. 2, with kickoff set for 11 a.m. CT in Fayetteville live on ESPN.
Perkins was part of an SEC sweep of this week's Walter Camp award alongside Arkansas quarterback Taylen Green, who won the offensive award. The Walter Camp National Player of the Week award is the nation's longest running weekly honor in its 21st year overall. Perkins is now the fifth recipient of the Walter Camp weekly award in Ole Miss history, as well as the first Rebel defensive player to ever win.
This joins an SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week award this week for Perkins, who is coming off one of the best pass rushing performances in Ole Miss history against Oklahoma. Perkins ended the day with 11 tackles, 5.0 of which were for a loss and 4.0 coming via the quarterback sack. Those 4.0 sacks are the most by any individual Rebel defender since 1993, when Cassius Ware notched 4.0 sacks against Georgia, while Perkins' 5.0 tackles for loss are the most by a Rebel since Khari Coleman's 5.0 against Troy in the 2022 season opener.
Perkins helped lead Ole Miss to 10 total sacks in the Rebels' 26-14 win over the Sooners last week, tied for the second-most in program history and the most ever surrendered by an Oklahoma offense.
On the year, Perkins is tied for the SEC lead and ranks fourth nationally at 8.5 sacks, and those 8.5 already tie him for ninth on the Ole Miss single-season list with Greg Hardy (2008) and Renard Brown (1995). In TFL, Perkins ranks second in the conference and is tied for fourth in the FBS.
Ole Miss hits the road to take on Arkansas this Saturday, Nov. 2, with kickoff set for 11 a.m. CT in Fayetteville live on ESPN.
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