TYLER, Texas – For
the second-straight year, East Carolina quarterback Shane Carden is one of 16
semifinalist for the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award the committee announced
Monday afternoon.
Carden, who earned Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Weekly honors on
Sept. 16, has guided the Pirates to a 7-3 overall record and a 4-2 ledger in
the American Athletic Conference. The Houston, Texas prep product has passed
for a league-best 3,574 yards, completing 63.6 percent of his passes (294 of
462) with 21 touchdowns. He has also added five ground scores, which ranks
second on the team behind Breon Allen’s eight.
A Davey O’Brien Award semifinalist and three-time American
Conference Offensive Player-of-the-Week selection, Carden already owns ECU
career records in completions (954), attempts (1,424), TDs (77), passing yards
(10,829) and total offense (11,089), while ranking second behind David Garrard
(1,685/1998-2001) in total plays (1,666). He also owns the ECU single-game
standard for completions (46/ODU), passing yards (480/Tulane) and TDs accounted
for (7/Tulsa), while tying his own mark with five passing scores on three
occasions (ODU, Tulsa, UAB).
Carden has engineered a Pirate offense that has racked up
500 yards or more total offense six times, including a school-record 789 yards
in a 70-41 win over North Carolina. He has authored a league-best five 400-yard
passing efforts, which ranks second nationally behind Connor Halliday
(Washington State), who has six.
Nationally, he ranks among the Top 20 in completions for
10-plus yards (1st/152), completions per game (2nd/29.40 pg), total offense
(2nd/365.3 pg), passing yards per game (2nd/357.4 pg), passing yards
(4th/3,574) and points responsible for per game (16th/16.0 pg).
The semifinalists, in alphabetical order, include: Jay Ajayi
(Boise State), J. T. Barrett (Ohio State), Trevone Boykin (TCU), Shane Carden
(East Carolina), David Cobb (Minnesota), Corey Coleman (Baylor), Josh Doctson
(TCU), Rashard Higgins (Colorado State), Aaron Jones (UTEP), Cayleb Jones
(Arizona), Shock Linwood (Baylor), Keevan Lucas (Tulsa), Samaje Perine
(Oklahoma), Bryce Petty (Baylor), Josh Reynolds (Texas A&M) and Jonathan
Williams (Arkansas).
Finalists will be selected from this group and announced on
December 10, 2014. The winner will be announced and honored at the award
banquet in Tyler, Texas on January 14, 2014.
The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, announced in 2012 by the
Tyler Chamber and SPORTyler, recognizes the top offensive player in Division I
football who also exhibits the enduring characteristics that define Earl
Campbell: integrity, performance, teamwork, sportsmanship, drive, community and
tenacity; specifically tenacity to persist and determination to overcome
adversity and injury in pursuit of reaching goals. In addition, the nominee
must meet one or more of the following criteria: born in Texas and/or graduated
from a Texas High School and/or played at a Texas-based junior college or four
year Division I Texas college.
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