CAA Football Weekly Awards - Oct. 12

CAA Football Weekly Awards - Oct. 12

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RICHMOND, Va. (October 12, 2026) – CAA Football has announced its weekly award winners for Week 6 of the 2026 season. North Carolina A&T junior quarterback Kevin White was selected as the Offensive Player of the Week while Stony Brook redshirt freshman defensive end Khalid Bueno received Defensive Player of the Week accolades. Stony Brook junior kick returner/safety DaMario Crawford was chosen as the Special Teams Player of the Week and Towson freshman quarterback Jacob Davis and North Carolina A&T freshman linebacker Terry Radford shared Rookie of the Week honors.
 
CAA Football Offensive Player of the Week
Kevin White, Jr., QB, North Carolina A&T (Newport News, Va./Green Run)
 White passed for 230 yards and three touchdowns and added 38 yards rushing in North Carolina A&T’s 30-27 overtime win over New Hampshire. The junior converted three 4th-down passes on a 75-yard drive before firing a game-tying 19-yard TD throw on the final play of regulation. It was White’s second straight game with three TD passes.

CAA Football Defensive Player of the Week
Khalid Bueno, R-Fr., DE, Stony Brook (Philadelphia, Pa./Martin Luther King)
 Bueno recorded eight tackles, 3.0 sacks, 4.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble and three QB hurries in Stony Brook’s 31-24 victory at Towson. It was his second straight game with three sacks and fourth with multiple sacks, while the 4.5 TFL’s are a career high. Bueno tops FCS with 10.5 sacks and 16.0 TFL’s for the season.

CAA Football Special Teams Player of the Week
DaMario Crawford, R-Jr., KR/S, Stony Brook (Erie, Pa./Cathedral Prep)
Crawford averaged 55.0 yards on a pair of kickoff returns, including a 90-yard return for a TD that proved to be the difference in Stony Brook’s 31-24 win at Towson. With SBU leading by only three in the third quarter, Crawford delivered the first KOR for a TD by a Seawolves’ player since last October. He ranks 3rd in FCS with a 36.3 ypr average.

CAA Football Co-Rookie of the Week
Jacob Davis, Fr., QB, Towson (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine)
In his first collegiate start, Davis accounted for 403 yards of total offense in Towson’s setback to Stony Brook. The freshman completed 26-of-34 passes for 337 yards and 2 TD’s and ran for a team-high 66 yards. It was the most passing yards by a Towson freshman QB since 2005 and the 2nd-most total offense yards in the CAA in 2026.

CAA Football Co-Rookie of the Week
Terry Radford, Fr., LB, North Carolina A&T (Chester, S.C./Chester)
Radford tallied a career-high 17 tackles and a tackle for loss in North Carolina A&T’s overtime win over New Hampshire. The freshman had just three assisted tackles this season before making an FCS-best 13 solo stops vs. the Wildcats. The 17 tackles are the 2nd-most by a CAA player and tied for the 9th-most in FCS.