{"id":1114,"date":"2020-10-28T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:00:34","slug":"former-tiger-ridder-named-davey-obrien-national-qb-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Former Tiger Ridder named Davey O&#8217;Brien National QB of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Davey O&#8217;Brien Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n<div><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> \u2014 The Davey O\u2019Brien Foundation has announced that Cincinnati junior Desmond Ridder has been selected as the Davey O\u2019Brien National Quarterback of the Week for week eight of the college football season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the Bearcats\u2019 42-13 win at No. 16 and previously unbeaten SMU on Saturday night, Ridder totaled four touchdowns and 305 yards of offense. The junior rushed for a career-high 179 yards and three scores on just eight carries, an average of 22.4 yards per carry. Through the air, he completed 13 of 21 passes for 126 yards and a touchdown.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 179 rushing yards were the most ever by a Cincinnati quarterback and the effort was his fifth career 100-yard rushing game. Ridder\u2019s game-sealing 91-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter equaled the longest rush in school history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A product of Louisville, Ky., Ridder was also named the Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week and the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week. He is the fourth AAC player to be named Davey O\u2019Brien National Quarterback of the Week in the season\u2019s eight weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The other quarterbacks on this week\u2019s Davey O\u2019Brien Award\u2019s Great 8 list were Notre Dame\u2019s Ian Book, Justin Fields of Ohio State, UCF\u2019s Dillon Gabriel, Graham Mertz of Wisconsin, Middle Tennessee\u2019s Asher O\u2019Hara, Zac Thomas of Appalachian State and Liberty\u2019s Malik Willis.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Davey O\u2019Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award, the oldest and most prestigious college quarterback award, was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O\u2019Brien Foundation has given away more than $1 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1938, O\u2019Brien, who was a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001GKW22HvBeobziHBB7EcrBDhsec0_QD2RA0P0BZ1UyT94BJUPXTK2Mh6wHtfBQ_0m2oAN1VV_A2e62-4QYL5Gpjr92ldBNO1mA-Ii1yh2_eYan1MbwoaFWLomAChkUJReFbQcpFN3aWsiyyMVeXnVSg==&amp;c=Wivuo9AgZCw_B2PMFydoiFNnEt_e6wNR7HKWQU8_bQm6RUIxOO-UFw==&amp;ch=Falbrt69smiVs81PRpOn3qxQEsIQSHExI3B4Q-WMlF1CtLDczckPJQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.DaveyOBrien.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2020 Davey O\u2019Brien National Quarterback of the Week Honorees<\/div>\n<div>Week 1: Brady White, Memphis<\/div>\n<div>Week 2: Trevor Lawrence, Clemson<\/div>\n<div>Week 3: Dillon Gabriel, UCF<\/div>\n<div>Week 4: K.J. Costello, Mississippi State<\/div>\n<div>Week 5: Shane Buechele, SMU<\/div>\n<div>Week 6: Connor Bazelak, Missouri<\/div>\n<div>Week 7: Mac Jones, Alabama<\/div>\n<div>Week 8: Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davey O&#8217;Brien Foundation FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 The Davey O\u2019Brien Foundation has announced that Cincinnati junior Desmond Ridder has been selected as the Davey O\u2019Brien National<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,39,203,23],"tags":[328,84,327,37,326],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-division-i","category-football","category-news","category-players-of-the-week","category-top-news","tag-cincinnati","tag-davey-obrien-award","tag-desmond-ridder","tag-football","tag-st-xavier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}