Football | 9/8/2025 4:00:00 PM
Week 1 PAC Honors (for events between September 1-7)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 11 of the 2025 season.
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Chris Downs • Saint Vincent • Junior wide receiver • Gambrills, Md./Arundel
In the Bearcats' season-opening 28-7 win against Hilbert, Downs caught six passes for 100 yards, including two touchdowns for SVC, who won a season opener for the first time since beating Bluffton 34-14 to start 2021 ... Downs caught a nine-yard scoring toss to double SVC's lead to 14-0 in the second quarter and his 11-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Jake Phillips accounted for the final score in Saint Vincent's win ... Three of his other receptions went for first downs, including a 50-yard catch the play before his TD reception in the fourth quarter.
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Allegheny sophomore wide receiver Devin Larry (Loganville, Ga./Loganville Christian); Case Western Reserve quarterback Aaron Filips (Medina, Ohio/Highland); Geneva junior quarterback Caleb Romano (Ravena, N.Y./Mount Dora Christian Academy); Grove City junior wide receiver Breck Peacock (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton Academy); Hiram junior quarterback Sean Tejeda (San Antonio, Texas/McCollum); Thiel senior wide receiver Jaylen Benjamin (Hartsville, S.C./Hartsville); W&J senior wide receiver John Peduzzi (Hilton Head, S.C./Hilton Head Christian Academy); Waynesburg junior wide receiver Tyler Richmond (Carmichaels, Pa./Carmichaels)
PAC Defensive Player of the Week
Noah Wheeler • Grove City • Sophomore cornerback • McKinney, Texas/McKinney Christian
Wheeler intercepted two passes Saturday in Grove City's 31-14 win at No. 10 Cortland ... His first pick came in the end zone with 1:03 left in the first half, preserving a 14-14 tie ... On the third play of the second half, Wheeler returned an interception 36 yards for a touchdown, putting the Wolverines ahead to stay ... Grove City limited the Red Dragons to 13 first downs and a 3-for-11 effort on third downs.
PAC Defensive Honor Roll
Allegheny junior defensive back Landon Wayne (Albion, Pa./Northwestern); Case Western Reserve senior linebacker Daniel King (Mt. Lebanon, Pa./Mt. Lebanon); Geneva sophomore defensive back Noah Hutcherson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Woodland Hills); Hiram senior linebacker Kole Tarary (Warren, Ohio/Kennedy Catholic); Saint Vincent sophomore linebacker Nathan Parker (Brockport, N.Y./Brockport); Thiel junior defensive back Matt Jordan (New Castle, Pa./Kennedy Catholic); W&J sophomore linebacker Brock Sherman (Copley, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit); Waynesburg junior linebacker Ewing Jamison (Jefferson, Pa./Jefferson-Morgan); Westminster senior linebacker Dylan Sleva (Moon Twp., Pa./Moon)
PAC Special Teams Player of the Week
Caden Langley • Bethany • Sophomore punter/kicker • Wellsburg, W.Va./Brooke
Langley consistently flipped the field for the Bison in Saturday's game against Sewanee ... Of his seven punts, four traveled 50+ yards for an average of 46.3 per boot, highlighted by a long of 60 ... Langley pinned three punts inside the Sewanee five-yard line with zero touchbacks ... His 46.3 yards per punt average ranks sixth in Division III after one week.
PAC Special Teams Honor Roll
Saint Vincent senior kicker Justin Emeigh (New Oxford, Pa./Delone Catholic); Thiel junior running back/kick returner Jayveerh White (Sharon, Pa./Sharon); W&J senior kicker/punter Deven Wyandt (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Brady Lane • Grove City • Freshman kicker/punter • Jefferson, Ga./Mill Creek
Lane averaged 40.2 yards per punt on six kicks Saturday in Grove City's win at No. 10 Cortland ... He also kicked a 37-yard field goal with 4:44 left that gave the Wolverines a 24-14 lead ... Lane went 4-for-4 on extra points and added a touchback on a kickoff that came from the 30 after a penalty.
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman defensive back Cory Holleran (Kill Buck, N.Y./Salamanca); Hiram freshman wide receiver Devin Tufts (Macedonia, Ohio/Nordonia); Thiel freshman wide receiver Riley Dunbar (Lyons, Ohio/Lyons)
PAC Records & Milestones
Allegheny's Landon Wayne made 11 tackles and returned in interception 82 yards for a touchdown Saturday against Denison ... Wayne and sophomore DB Elisah Banks (Las Vegas, Nev./Desert Pines) had pick-sixes on consecutive drives against Denison, the first time in at least 25 years Allegheny posted multiple interception returns for TDs in the same game ... Case Western Reserve's Aaron Filips threw for 236 yards and one TD and added 60 rushing yards and another touchdown before the Spartans' game at Rowan was stopped in the third quarter due to inclement weather ... Geneva's Caleb Romano threw for a career-high 258 yards and three TDs at Widener, the most passing yards by a GT quarterback since October, 2015 ... Hiram's Kole Tarary recorded a game-high 15 tackles against Heidelberg, his third straight game with 15+ tackles dating back to last season ... In Saint Vincent's win over Hilbert Saturday, the first in head coach Casey Goff's tenure at SVC, Nathan Parker set a program record with 18 tackles, which included 12 solo ... Thiel's Jaylen Benjamin set career-highs with six receptions for 77 yards, while Matt Jordan made a career-best 13 tackles ... With his eight receptions for 107 yards and two TDs Saturday versus Utica, W&J wideout John Peduzzi is now second in program history in career receiving yards (3,207) and receiving touchdowns (41) ... Westminster's Dylan Sleva finished with a career-high 25 tackles (nine solo) Thursday against Marietta, the most by a Division III player since Grinnell's Hugh Werner finished with 26 (seven solo) in a 14-7 loss to Knox on Oct. 21, 2023 ... It's also the fourth-most in PAC history and highest total since Grove City's Scott Fraser made 28 stops against Carnegie Mellon on Oct. 31, 1992.