By: Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 today announced its football weekly awards for Week 7 of the 2026 season, as selected by the league's media, with 3 different schools represented and a 7th straight win for the Freshman of the Week.
 
OFFENSE:  Torrance Burgess Jr., 6th year, RB, Texas State (Pearland, Texas)

• Led the Texas State offensvie attack that put up a school-record 716 total yards and 503 rushing yards in a 66-27 victory over Colorado State, helping the Bobcats become the first FBS team to rush for 500+ yards over another FBS team since 2021.  The 503 rush yards were the most by Texas State since becoming an FBS program in 2012
• Rushed the ball 24 times while setting career-highs with both 224 rush yards and 4 rushing touchdowns 
• 1st FBS player this season with 200+ rushing yards and 4 rush TD in the same game.  2nd Texas State player to reach both marks in the same game since becoming an FBS team in 2012 with Robert Lowe rushing for 236 yards and 4 rush TD against Arkansas State in 2014.  1st Pac-12 player to do it since Oregon State's Anthony Hankerson had 204 rush yards and 4 rush TD last season against Lafayette.  1st time a player has done it in a Pac-12 conference game since Washington's Dillon Johnson had 256 yards and 4 rush TD against USC in 2023
• Led the nation in rushing yards for Week 7 and was the only FBS player this week to rush for 200+ yards in a game.  Was the 4th highest single-game rushing total in FBS this season
• Tied for the 10th highest single-game rush yards in Texas State history and the 4th highest by a Bobcat since the program moved to FBS in 2012
• 1 of 2 FBS players this season with multiple games with 200+ rush yards (Missouri's Jamal Roberts) after putting up 214 yards in Week 3 against North Texas
• 1 of 8 times this season that an FBS player rushed for 4+ touchdowns in a single game.  5 of those 8 occurred in Week 7
• 2nd most rushing touchdowns in a game by a Texas State player all-time and tied for the most in a single game since the program moved to FBS in 2012.  Harold Allen rushed for 5 touchdowns for the Bobcats in 1996 against Grand Valley State while Robert Lowe also rushed for 4 in 2014 against Arkansas State
• Added a season-high 52 yards on 3 receptions to give Burgess Jr. 276 scrimmage yards in the game, the most by an FBS player this season, surpassing San Diego State's Javion Kinnard who had 251 (181 rush, 70 rec) against James Madison this season.  Most scrimmage yards in a game by an FBS player since November 29th of last season when Liberty's Evan Dickens had 283 (267 rush, 16 rec) against Kennesaw State
• Leads FBS in rushing yards per game (139.7) just edging out fellow Pac-12 RB Dylan Riley of Boise State (139.2).  Burgess Jr. is 2nd in the country in rush yards (838) and 3rd in all-purpose yard per game (153.5)
• Leads FBS in yards per carry (7.76) and leads the country in runs of 40+ yards (6), 50+ yards (5) while also being tied for 1st in runs of 30+ yards (6) and 60+ yards (3).  Burgess Jr. had 3 runs of 20+ yards against Colorado State including 2 runs of 50+ yards - a 51-yard touchdown in the 1st quarter and a 53-yard sprint in 3rd quarter to set up another touchdown
• Texas State had 8 rushing touchdowns in total against Colorado State (4 for Burgess, 3 for QB Brad Jackson and 1 for RB Jaylen Jenkins) to tie the school's single-game record as an FBS team (2023 vs Jackson State)
• 1st Texas State player to win Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week and 2nd Bobcat to earn a weekly conference honor this seson after WR/KR Dameon Crowe was named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week following Week 3

ALSO NOMINATED:  AJ Newberry, RB, Oregon State; Branden Ganashamoorthy, WR, Washington State
 
DEFENSE:  Kai Wallin, 5th year, EDGE, San Diego State (Sacramento, Calif.)

• Helped the Aztecs beat Fresno State, 26-23, on Saturday night as SDSU limited the Bulldogs to just 276 total yards (4.3 yard per play), the fewest allowed by San Diego State this season
• Recorded his first 3 sacks of the season for a total of 15 yards.  Had 1.5 total sacks the previous 3 seasons combined with 0.5 sacks in his 2 years at Nebraska (2023-24) and 1 sack last season while playing for Oregon State
• The 3 sacks are the most in Pac-12 play this season and tied for the 5th most in a FBS game this season.  1 of 15 FBS players this season with 3+ sacks in a game
• He’s the 1st Aztec with 3 sacks in a game since Trey White had 3 vs. Hawai’i on Oct. 5, 2024
• The 1st sack came on a 2nd-and-11 in the 1st quarter, going for a 7-yard loss and making it a 3rd-and-18. On the 3rd down, Wallin was credited with a quarterback hurry for the Fresno State incompletion, forcing the Bulldogs to punt. SDSU answered with a touchdown to make it 10-0
• The 2nd sack came on a 2nd-and-10 in the 4th quarter of a 1-point game, making it 3rd-and-12 from the SDSU 40. Fresno State's next pass was an incompletion, forcing a punt inside SDSU territory
• The final sack came on 1st-and-10 with 57 seconds left in the 4th quarter. It forced a 2nd-and-16 situation and took 17 seconds off the clock as Fresno State had no timeouts left. The Bulldogs ended up going 4-and-out and SDSU kneeled for the win
• San Diego State beat Fresno State for the 3rd straight time, thier longest streak in the rivalry since claiming 4 straight victories from 1995-98
• 2nd time in the last 3 weeks that an SDSU player has Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after LB Cameron Cooper was honored following Week 5

ALSO NOMINATED:  Takari Hickle, EDGE, Oregon State; Jayden Bradley, DB, Texas State; Keith Brown, LB, Washington State
 
SPECIAL TEAMS:  Cooper DiLeva, 4th year, K, San Diego State (San Pedro, Calif.)

• Responsible for 14 of the Aztecs' 26 points including a career-long 53-yard FG with 57 seconds remaining in a 26-23 win over Fresno State on Saturday night
• Tied a program record with 4 field goals (11th time it’s happened) after entering with 4 field goals on the season (and for his FBS career) in 6 games.  The last SDSU kicker to make 4 field goals in 1 game was Jack Browning, also against Fresno State, in 2023
• It was tied for the 7th longest field goal in program history, tied for the longest in Pac-12 play this season after Oregon State's Caleb Ojeda also made a 53-yard kick last week against San Diego State.  The last SDSU kicker to make a 53+ yard FG was Gabe Plascencia who made a 53-yarder last season against Colorado State.  1 of 27 players in FBS this season to make a field goal of 53+ yards.  Was the longest by an Aztec kicker in the 4th quarter of a one-score game in program history
• His other field goals came from 32, 30 and 40 yards
• 5th player in SDSU history to attempt 5 field goals in a single game with the most recent being J.C. Mejia in 2003 vs Wyoming
• Made both of his extra point attempts in the game and is 17-for-17 on XP for the season
• Also kicked off 7 times for a 63.9 average and 5 touchbacks
• 2nd Aztec to be named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week this season after WR/KR Jaylon Hawkins previously claimed the award 3 times (Week 1, 5, 6)

ALSO NOMINATED:  Caleb Ojeda, K, Oregon State
 
FRESHMAN:  Jesse Legree, 1st year, WR, Oregon State (Baltimore, Md.)

• Caught 8 passes for 108 yards and 2 touchdowns (90 and 5 yards) in the Beavers 48-30 win over Washington State, extending their win streak to 5 straight games and outscoring their opponents 255-94 in that span
• 7th straight 100-yard game, extending his own Oregon State record. He is the 1st FBS player with 7 in a row since South Alabama’s Caullin Lacy in 2023.  According to ESPN, Legree has the 2nd longest streak in a season in FBS over last 20 years with both 100+ receiving yards and a receving TD in the same game.  Justin Blackmon did it in 12 straight for Oklahoma State in 2010
• His 90-yard touchdown in the 1st quarter was the 6th catch of 90 or more yards in Oregon State history, and the 1st since Derek Anderson to Mike Hass in 2003
• 6th Beaver with 2 career catches of 75 or more yards.  Leads FBS this season with 4 receptions of 70+ yards with no other player in the country having more than 2
• Went over 1,000 receiving yards on the season in just his 7th career game (1,040 total). He is the 1st player at the FBS level to reach 1,000 yards receiving this season
• According to OptaStats, became just the 4th player in FBS this century to have 1,000 receiving yards and 14 TD through the team's first 7 games to join Justin Blackmon (2010 Oklahoma State), Michael Crabtree (2007 Texas Tech) and Larry Fitzgerald (2003 Pitt).  All 3 of those previous players went on to win the Biletknokff Award that season as the nation's top receiver as well as finishing in the Top 5 of that year's Heisman Trophy voting.  Blackmon and Crabtree both finished 5th in the Heisman voting those seasons while Fitzgerald was the 2003 runner-up behind Okahoma QB Jason White
• His 2 touchdowns gave him 14 on the season, second on Oregon State’s single-season list behind only Brandin Cooks’ 16 in 2013
• Leads FBS in receiving yards (1,040), recieving yards per game (148.6) and receiving touchdowns (148.6).  Tied for the national lead in both total points scored (84) and total touchdowns (14), both with West Virginia QB Michael Hawkins, while ranking 4th in FBS in all-purpose yards per game (148.6) behind Boise State RB Dylan Riley (2nd, 166.3) and Texas State RB Torrance Burgess Jr. (3rd, 153.5)
• Ranks 4th in FBS and tops in the Pac-12 with 22.6 yards per reception.  Leads the country in receptions of 30+ yards (11), 40+ yards (9), 50+ yards (6) and 70+ yards (4).  Tied for the national lead in receptions of 20+ yards (17), 80+ yards (1) and 90+ yards (1) as 1 of just 5 FBS players this season with a reception of 90+ yards
• Extends his record with 7 straight Pac-12 Freshman of the Week award.  No other Pac-12 player has won the weekly freshman award more than 5 times.  No other Pac-12 player has won any conference weekly award 7 times in a single season.  Ties the mark for most Pac-12 weekly awards in a career with 3 other players - Oregon QB Bo Nix was a 7-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week in 2022-23, Stanford kicker Joshua Karty was a 7-time Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week in 2022-23 and Arizona State kicker Zane Gonzalez was a 7-time winner from 2013-2016

 

	Offensive	Defensive	Special Teams	Freshman
Week 1 (Sept. 8)	Hauss Hejny, QB, Colorado State	Oumar Diomande, LB, Colorado State	Jaylon Hawkins, WR/KR, San Diego State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 2 (Sept. 14)	Dylan Riley, RB, Boise State	Jaylen Thomas, DB Washington State	Cam Bates, WR/KR, Boise State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 3 (Sept. 21)	Braden Atkinson, QB Oregon State	Ethan Tierney, DB Fresno State	Manaki Watanabe, K Fresno State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 4 (Sept. 28)	Rayshon Luke, RB Fresno State	Brevin Hamblin, Safety, Utah State	Dameon Crowe, WR/KR Texas State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 5 (Oct. 5)	Braden Atkinson, QB Oregon State	Cameron Cooper, LB, San Diego State	Jaylon Hawkins, WR/KR, San Diego State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 6 (Oct. 12)	Braden Atkinson, QB Oregon State	Asher Cunningham, ILB Utah State	Jaylon Hawkins, WR/KR, San Diego State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State
Week 7 (Oct. 19)	Torrance Burgess Jr., RB, Texas State	Kai Wallin, EDGE, San Diego State	Cooper DiLeva, K San Diego State	Jesse Legree, WR, Oregon State