Texas Tech football's Cameron Dickey among semifinalists for Doak Walker Award
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Cameron Dickey came out of spring practice third on the Texas Tech football depth chart in a competitive running backs room. Now he’s the Big 12’s leading rusher and on the short list for a major national award.
Dickey was among 10 semifinalists announced Tuesday, Nov. 18, for the Doak Walker Award, presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding college running back.
The 5-foot-10, 215-pound sophomore from Austin Crockett has carried 168 times for 944 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 17 passes for 179 yards and a TD. His 14 total touchdowns and 13 rushing TDs are the most in the Big 12.
Though Dickey also leads the conference in rushing yards, Brigham Young’s L.J. Martin, who has 912 yards in one fewer game, leads in rushing yards per game with an average of 91.2 to Dickey’s 85.8.
It’s the third year in a row Texas Tech has had a Doak Walker Award semifinalist after Tahj Brooks made the cut each of the past two years.
Three Doak Walker Award finalists will be named on Nov. 25, and the winner will be announced on Dec. 12.
Dickey’s one of three finalists from Texas, the others being Caleb Hawkins from North Texas and Robert Henry Jr. from UTSA.
The FBS’s top six rushers also are finalists: Missouri’s Ahmad Hardy, Jacksonville State’s Cam Cook, Ole Miss’s Kewan Lacy, Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love, Nebraska’s Emmett Johnson, and San Diego State’s Lucky Sutton. The other finalist is Rutgers’ Antwan Raymond.
After the Red Raiders finished spring football, Tech coach Joey McGuire listed Southern California transfer Quinten Joyner as the first-team running back, followed by J’Koby Williams and Dickey. Joyner suffered a season-ending knee injury in August, and Williams and Dickey have emerged as true sophomores.
Williams is the Big 12 leader in all-purpose yards and one of six finalists for the Paul Hornung Award that goes to the most versatile player in major-college football.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech football’s Cameron Dickey in last 10 for Doak Walker Award
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