NEW ORLEANS – After setting a school game record and scoring three touchdowns to help lead the University of South Alabama football team to a win at Arkansas State Saturday, Jalen Tolbert was voted the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Monday as announced by the league office.

It's the second time this fall that the junior wide receiver has been recognized after earning the same award on Sept. 7 following the Jaguars' defeat of Southern Miss to begin the season.  Tolbert is the first individual from the program to collect multiple weekly honors from the Sun Belt in the same year since Tra Minter did so in 2018, but the first-ever to be named the conference's Offensive Player of the Week on two occasions.

In the Jaguars' 38-31 victory over the Red Wolves, Tolbert recorded a career-best 10 receptions for a school game-record 252 yards — the third-highest total in Sun Belt Conference history — and three touchdowns; each of the scores came in the second half after South fell behind by 10 points.  The Mobile native reached the end zone from 42 and 37 yards out in the third quarter to put the Jags back in front, and after the Red Wolves regained the lead in the final period his 51-yard touchdown catch put USA up for good.

Not only was it his second 100-yard game of the campaign, with the effort Tolbert became the school's season record holder with 993 receiving yards this fall while tying the school standard with eight touchdown catches on the year.

Entering the Jaguars' regular-season finale against Troy, he ranks second in the SBC in both catches and receiving yards per game.  Tolbert is also fifth in the country in total receiving yards and tied with teammate Kawaan Baker for ninth nationally in touchdown receptions.

The annual "Battle For The Belt" will kick off at 1 p.m. (CST) Saturday at Hancock Whitney Stadium.

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