South Carolina's Darius Rush wins SEC Defensive POTW over Anfernee Orji

[BrentVU]

SEC Defensive Player of the Week honors for last week went to South Carolina DB Darius Rush over Vandy LB Anfernee Orji. Here's a comparison between Rush and Orji from last week's games:

Tackles:
Orji - 13 (8 solo, 5 assisted)
Rush - 8 (6 solo, 2 assisted)

Tackles for Loss:
Orji - 2.5
Rush - 0

Fumbles caused:
Orji - 2
Rush - 1

Fumbles recovered:
Orji - 1
Rush - 0

Interceptions:
Orji - 1
Rush - 1

Team won the game:
Orji - No
Rush - Yes

[Seadog73]

Stupid, bad decision by the SEC. And given how poorly aTm has been playing all year and part of last year, they can't say it was due to the strength of USCe's opponent compared to VU's opponent. Ignorant, just ignorant.

[AuricGoldfinger]

Honest question--do they ever give the weekly award to a player whose team lost their game?

[charlestonalum]

Change the title to "SEC winning player of week"

[Podge91]

Yeah they won't give it to a player whose team lost. You can search the archives, but I'll bet it's rare