Football | December 03, 2024
LOS ANGELES—Thirteen Trojan football players earned All-Big Ten Conference honors, the Conference announced today (Dec. 3).
P Eddie Czaplicki not only earned First Team honors by the coaches and the media, but he was named the Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year.
RB Woody Marks and OL Emmanuel Pregnon both were selected to the Second Team.
All-Big Ten Third Team honors were presented to OL Jonah Monheim, CB Jaylin Smith, RET Makai Lemon and SNP Hank Pepper.
TE Lake McRee, OL Elijah Paige, LB Easton Mascarenas-Arnold, DT Gavin Meyer, S Kamari Ramsey and LB Mason Cobb each earned Big Ten Honorable Mention.
Czaplicki, a Ray Guy Award finalist and All-American candidate is the best punter in the nation. USC ranks first in the nation in net punting (45.54). He leads the nation in percentage of punts inside the 20 for punters with a minimum of 30 attempts. Twenty-four of his punts have been inside the 20, 9 have been inside the 10 and 4 inside the 5. He has recorded just 1 touchback the entire season. He has averaged over 50-yards in 4 games this season (55.3 vs. LSU, 53.1 vs. Michigan, 56.0 vs. Minnesota and 51.8 vs. Nebraska). He has been named a Ray’s 8 Award recipient three times this season. Twenty-one of Czaplicki’s 40 punts have been over 50 yards (.525), including a season-long of 62 yards against Minnesota. He also recorded a career-high single game punting average of 53.1 yards against Michigan. Czaplicki has been instrumental in flipping the field and giving the Trojan defense great field position all season long.
Although Marks was at USC for just one season, he immediately made a massive impact on the field. He recorded 1,133 rushing yards on 198 attempts (5.7 avg.) with 9 TDs. He sits at 24th among USC’s all-time single-season rushing leaders with 1,133 yards this season. He surpasses Anthony Davis who had 1,112 rushing yards in the 1973 season. Marks is USC’s first 1,000-yard rusher since Ronald Jones II rushed for 1,550 yards in 2017. Since Reggie Bush and LenDale White were 1,000-yard rushers in 2005, just five USC RBs have been 1,000-yard season rushers: Joe McKnight (2009), Curtis McNeal (2011), Javorius Allen (2014), Ronald Jones II (2016 & 2017) and now Woody Marks. He also tied with WR Zachariah Branch for USC’s 2024 receiving…
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