COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Corey Bojorquez, who has been doing his best punting in the past few weeks, has been named the Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week by league officials. Joining him on the list of weekly honors is Wyoming sophomore quarterback Josh Allen as Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week and fellow Cowboy freshman linebacker Logan Wilson garnered Defensive Player of the Week. It is the first career Mountain West weekly award for all three players.
For Bojorquez, who is averaging 48.9 yards per kick over the last three weeks, had his best week to date, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Bojorquez averaged and netted 52.8 yards per punt over four punts. He forced three fair catches, and his most important kick came with 1:04 to go. Facing an 11-man all-out rush, Bojorquez boomed a career-long punt 66 yards that was downed at the four-yard line. Overall he had two 50+ yard punts and two downed inside the 20.
For the season, Bojorquez has improved his average to 41.2 yards per kick with a long of 66 yards. He has 10 50+ yard punts and 10 inside the 20. Bojorquez is UNM’s fourth MW Player of the Week, and the third Special Teams winner, joining kicker Jason Sanders and kickoff returner Elijah Lilly. Dakota Cox was the league’s Defensive Player of the Week in the opening week of the season.
SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
COREY BOJORQUEZ, NEW MEXICO
Junior, Punter, Bellflower, Calif / Cerritos College
- Averaged a career-best 52.8 yards per kick on four punts in New Mexico’s 35-26 home win against Nevada.
- Booted a 66-yard punt that was downed at the Nevada four-yard line with1:04 remaining in the game.
- His other punts went for 52, 47 and 46 yards.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
JOSH ALLEN, WYOMING
Sophomore, Quarterback, Firebaugh, Calif. / Reedley CC, Calif.
- Led Wyoming to a 52-28 win over Utah State, accounting for five of the seven touchdowns for the Cowboys.
- Threw four touchdown passes and rushed for a fifth TD, accounting for 30 points in the contest.
- Collected 327 yard of total offense, including 16-of-26 passing (61.5 percent) for 261 yards and 1 Interception to go along with nine rushing attempts for 66 yards.
- Had career highs in total offense (327 yards), touchdown passes (4) and TDs responsible for (5).
- Recorded nine pass plays of 15 or more yards (18, 16, 25, 24, 15, 20, 46, 37, 21 yards) and two rushing plays of over 10 yards (15 and 38 yards).
- Was nearly flawless in the first half, completing 70.6 percent of his passes (12-of-17) and throwing three TD passes. He personally converted 7-of-8 third-down attempts in the first half — three by passing and four by rushing.
- After Utah State had cut Wyoming’s lead to seven points at 35-28 late in the third quarter, Allen accounted for 75 yards on back-to-back plays. He rushed for 38 yards on second and 10, and threw a 37-yard TD pass to tight end Jacob Hollister on the following play to increase Wyoming’s lead back to 14 points at 42-28.
- The four TD passes on the day went for 25 yards, 15 yards, 46 yards and 37 yards to three different receivers — Tanner Gentry (2 TDs), Jake Maulhardt (1 TD) and Hollister (1 TD).
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
LOGAN WILSON, WYOMING
Freshman, Linebacker, Casper, Wyoming / Natrona County HS
- Recorded seven tackles (five solo), one interception and one fumble recovery in Wyoming’s 52-28 victory over Utah State.
- Recovered a fumble recovery late in the first half that led to a Wyoming touchdown two plays later and gave the Cowboys a 35-7 lead.
- Intercepted an Aggie pass midway through the fourth quarter at the Wyoming 18-yard line and returned it 56 yards to the USU 26. That interception ended a nine-play, 50-yard drive by the Aggies and set up Wyoming’s final touchdown of the game four plays later to seal a 52-28 home win.
- Among his seven tackles were a solo tackle in the first quarter on a one-yard pass completion that was part of a series that Utah State was forced to punt two plays later. Had back-to-back tackles in the fourth quarter on pass plays of five and nine yards followed up by his 56-yard interception return on the same series.