The FCS stars will shine Saturday evening when the highest particular person awards in faculty soccer’s Division I subdivision are introduced on the 2023 Stats Carry out FCS Nationwide Awards Banquet.
The awards banquet, introduced by FedEx Floor, will start airing on 14 Bally Sports activities regional networks on Sunday, with two-time Tremendous Bowl-winning linebacker Gary Causes serving because the host. Over 155 airings are scheduled.
Highlighting the banquet are the bulletins of the Walter Payton and Buck Buchanan awards for the nationwide offensive and defensive gamers of the yr, respectively.
The Payton Award, in its thirty seventh season and infrequently referred to as the Heisman of the FCS, is all the way down to quarterbacks Max Brosmer of New Hampshire and Mark Gronowski of South Dakota State and working again Jaden Shirden of Monmouth.
Defensive finish Terrell Allen of Tennessee State and linebackers Dylan Kelly of UAlbany and Billy Shaeffer of Lafayette are up for the Buchanan Award, which is in its twenty ninth season.
The winners of three different awards that will probably be introduced on the banquet had been introduced beforehand: Montana working again Eli Gillman, thirteenth Jerry Rice Award for nationwide freshman participant of the yr; South Dakota State’s Jimmy Rogers, thirty seventh Eddie Robinson Award for nationwide coach of the yr; and Montana State quarterback Tommy Mellott, ninth FedEx Floor Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award.