Men’s Football
Football Top 10: Montreal stays on top, Calgary moves up to No. 2
Manitoba defensive back Jayden McKoy and StFX receiver Kaion Julien-Grant are U SPORTS Football Players of the Week, for the period ending September 24, 2017
McKoy registered interceptions on back-to-back Regina possessions in the second quarter, as Manitoba claimed an 18-16 win over the Rams at Mosaic Stadium. Both McKoy interceptions were critical to Manitoba picking up their first win of the season, as the first was a 47-yard pick six – the lone major on the day for the Bisons – while the next came in the end zone, taking points off the board for Regina.
A third-year human kinetics student in his second year of eligibility from Toronto, Julien-Grant had 10 punt returns for 188 yards in the X-Men's 37-27 win over Bishops on Saturday. In the fourth quarter, he returned a punt 91 yards for a touchdown—his third of the day as he also had two receiving touchdowns. Julien-Grant had 312 all-purpose yards in the game, bringing him to 798 yards on the season, good for tops in the AUS and third in the country, as is his 199.5 all-purpose yards per game average.
Offensive nominees:
- CW: Ed Ilnicki, running back, Alberta
- OUA: Alex Taylor, running back, Western
- RSEQ: Jonathan Breton-Robert, receiver, Laval
Defensive nominees:
- CW: Jayden McKoy, defensive back, Manitoba (winner)
- OUA: Rossini Sandjong-Djabome, defensive end, York
- RSEQ: Marc-Antoine Dequoy, defensive back, Montreal
- AUS: Nathaniel Fermin, defensive back, StFX
Special teams nominees:
- CW: Will Maxwell, returner, UBC
- OUA: Kurleigh Gittens Jr., receiver, Wilfrid Laurier
- RSEQ: Félix Ménard-Brière, kicker, Montreal
- AUS: Kaion Julien-Grant, receiver, StFX (winner)
- Player bios provided by U SPORTS member conferences