Penn State Nittany Lions defensive end Abdul Carter is among three finalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award as the nation's top defensive player.
Penn State defensive end Abdul Carter is among three finalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award, given to the nation's top defensive player in college football. Carter is nominated with Colorado defensive back Travis Hunter and Ohio State safety Caleb Downs for the honor. The Bednarik Award will be presented during the
Carter has been among the nation's most disruptive defensive players this season, his first playing defensive end full-time. The junior from Philadelphia leads the Big Ten and ranks third nationally in tackles for loss . He's tied for fourth in the Big Ten with eight sacks. Carter enters Penn State's regular-season finale with 19 career sacks.
The two-time all-Big Ten selection at linebacker made four tackles for loss and two sacks, including a strip-sack, against Washington to earn national player-of-the-week awards from the Maxwell Football Club and the Walter Camp Foundation. For Penn State coach James Franklin, this play against Purdue was perhaps Carter's best of the season.“I mean, the play he made on the screen was phenomenal,” Franklin said.
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