Nov. 25, 2002
Football: Mays Among 15 Finalists for Payton Award
Philadelphia, Pa. (Sports Network) - Youngstown State
senior tailback P.J. Mays is among
15 players who are finalists for the
2002 Walter Payton Award honoring
the top offensive player in Division
I-AA. Ballots with the names of all
15 finalists were mailed out today
and are due Dec. 2. The final three
in the voting will be invited to
attend the presentation of the
Awards, with the winner of that
Award not announced until the event.
The 16th Annual I-AA College
Football Awards will be held Dec. 19
in Chattanooga, Tenn., on the eve of
the NCAA I-AA National Championship
game.
Mays finished the season with 1,284 yards rushing and scored
11 rushing touchdowns. On 255
carries he averaged 5.0 yards per
attempt and 116.7 yards per game --
the seventh-best total in Division
I-AA. For his career he scored 45
touchdowns setting the Gateway
Conference career mark in just three
seasons.
Two players have been added to the 16-member Walter Payton
Award ballot
since the most recent "Payton
Watch" revision on Oct. 30. Fordham
running back
Kirwin Watson and Georgia
Southern quarterback Chaz Williams
have been selected as
Payton finalists
The following are the 16 players appearing on the 2002 Walter
Payton Award ballots. Additional
information on each player, as well
as history and facts about each of
the I-AA awards, is available at
www.sportsnetwork.com
2002 Walter Payton Award Finalists
David Corley, QB, William & Mary
John Edwards, QB, Montana
Bruce Eugene, QB, Grambling State
Ryan Fuqua, RB, Portland State
Chas Gessner, WR, Brown
Brett Gordon, QB, Villanova
Ryan Johnson, RB, Montana State
Stephan Lewis, RB, New Hampshire
P.J. Mays, RB, Youngstown State
Carl Morris, WR, Harvard
Billy Napier, QB, Furman
Willie Ponder, WR, Southeast
Missouri
Tony Romo, QB, Eastern Illinois
Allen Suber, QB, Bethune-Cookman
Kirwin Watson, RB, Fordham
Chaz Williams, QB, Georgia Southern
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