NEW ORLEANS – University of South Alabama football wide receiver Jamarius Way put on a record-setting performance in the Jaguars' first win of the season over the weekend, and as a result on Monday the senior was voted the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week.
It's the first time in his career that the preseason second-team all-league selection has claimed a weekly conference honor. He is just the second Jaguar wideout to win the award, joining Shavarez Smith who earned the distinction on Dec. 2, 2013.
Way, who hails from Belle Glade, Fla., hauled in 11 passes for 173 yards — both career-high totals — and a touchdown to help South defeat Texas State 41-31 in the first conference game of the season. In setting a school game record for receptions, he recorded a 54-yard catch to set up the Jags' first touchdown of the contest, a 63-yarder that led to their next score and an 18-yard reception for the final points of the night. It was the third time since joining the program a year ago that Way has posted 100-plus receiving yards in a contest, with the total the second-highest in a game in South's record books.
He became the ninth Jaguar ever to accumulate 1,000 receiving yards in a career while moving into eighth place on the school's all-time catch list as he now has 65 in just 15 outings.
Both his reception and yardage totals were the most by a player in the Sun Belt this fall, with the performance moving him atop the league rankings in catches per game as well as into third in receiving yards per outing.
Way and the Jaguars return to action with a 7 p.m. (CDT) contest at Memphis Saturday.
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