Wednesday, October 30, 2013

UCLA Bruins' Anthony Barr earns Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors

UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr, Oregon State quarterback Sean Mannion, and Oregon State kicker Trevor Romaine were named Pac-12 Players of the Week in football.

Barr, an sporty outside linebacker and a likely at the outset circular pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, led the Bruins’ cover in a come-from-behind 41-21 win greater than No. 23-ranked Nebraska on the road. The senior from San Pedro made 11 tackles, counting two in support of a loss, and helped the Bruins render the Cornhuskers scoreless in support of the final 37 minutes.
Barr, a converted H-Back, made large fool around bearing in mind large fool around the whole time the game, forcing three fumbles on the sunlight hours, with the third single end Nebraska’s superlative opening to cut in the succeeding partially on the 12 yard-line. With Barr's performance, the UCLA cover held the Cornhuskers to 128 rushing yards on 42 attempts.

Modish a separate honor, the Bruins were plus acknowledged as the nation's team of the week by the Football Writers Association of America bearing in mind overcoming a 21-3 discrepancy and dealing with the tragic death of associate cut Pasquale simply days earlier.

Meanwhile, Mannion, a junior from Pleasanton, California, accomplished 27 of 44 passes in support of a career-high 443 yards to set out along with a school-record 5 touchdown passes in a 51-48 overtime detective story greater than Utah. Mannion at present co-leads the population in touchdown passes (12), and ranks succeeding in the motherland in unreserved yards (1,237) and unreserved offense for each game (404 ypg).

Romaine, any more California junior from Corona, made all three of his deal with goal attempts in Oregon State’s overtime win greater than Utah.

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