Rutledge Earns WAC Player Of The Week Honors
Oct 6 | Football
DENVER (WAC) - SMU kickoff return man Jonas Rutledge has been named the Western Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week, the conference announced today.
Rutledge, a senior from Gainesville, Fla., set a school-record with 190 kickoff return yards on Saturday against UTEP. The previous record was held by Rodnick Phillips, who had 186 return yards at Wyoming on Nov. 2, 1996.
Rutledge opened the game with an 83-yard kickoff return, the 14th longest in SMU history, and returned three other kickoffs for a 47.5-yard return average. He now ranks 11th nationally in kick returns with a 30.3-yard average.
Rutledge also became the school?s all-time career kickoff return leader in the UTEP contest, passing Arthur Whittington (1,649). Rutledge now has 1,736 career yards.
