UIW’s Scott, NSU’s Herrington, SLU’s Larvadain earn Southland Football weekly honors

FRISCO, Texas – UIW’s Lindsey Scott, Jr., Northwestern State’s PJ Herrington, and Southeastern’s Gage Larcadain are the winners of the Southland Conference’s football weekly awards for the 10^th week of the season, as announced by the conference office Monday.

Offensive Player of the Week: Lindsey Scott, Jr., UIW – QB – Gr. – Zachary, La. (Zachary HS)
In the first half of the Cardinals’ 73-20 win over HCU, Scott completed 15-of-20 passes for 319 yards and seven touchdowns for his third offensive player of the week award this season.  This is the second game this season he has thrown for seven touchdowns in one half of play – only two such games existed in all of FCS history prior to this season. He now holds the top two passing efficiency single game marks this season after notching a 324.48 on Saturday. His 45 touchdown passes this season is tied for the fourth-most in a single Southland season and is only two short of the school record set last season by Cameron Ward.

Defensive Player of the Week: PJ Herrington, Northwestern State – S – Sr. – Natchez, Miss. (Natchez HS)
Herrington stuffed the stat sheet with four solo tackles, two pass breakups, a sack and an interception return for a touchdown in a 41-14 win at Texas A&M-Commerce to give NSU control of the race for the Southland title. His pick-6 was the Demons’ first pick-6 and first defensive touchdown since the 2019 season. He had one of NSU’s three sacks and was part of a unit that held Texas A&M-Commerce to 143 yards below its season average and kept the Lions under 100 yards rushing.
Honorable Mention: Kordell Williams, McNeese.

Special Teams Player of the Week: Gage Larvadain, Southeastern – KR/WR – So. – Donaldsonville, La. (Riverside Acad.)
Larvadain broke loose for a season-long 75-yard kickoff return and averaged 44.5 yards per kickoff return in Saturday’s 47-31 win at Lamar. He also hauled in five passes for 54 yards and a touchdown to finish with 158 all-purpose yards. Larvadain is the third different Southeastern Lion to win special teams player of the week this season.
Honorable Mention: Garrison Smith, McNeese.

2022 Southland Football Players of the Week

Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school’s sports information director. Voting for one’s own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.