{"id":107919,"date":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=107919"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:43:45","slug":"ole-miss-mac-brown-named-burlsworth-trophy-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-mac-brown-named-burlsworth-trophy-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss\u2019 Mac Brown Named Burlsworth Trophy Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> senior punter <strong>Mac Brown<\/strong>\u00a0was one of 67 players nominated from NCAA Division I (FBS) schools across the nation for the 2020 <strong>Burlsworth Trophy<\/strong>, as announced Tuesday by the <strong>Brandon Burlsworth Foundation<\/strong>.<br>\u00a0<br>The Burlsworth Trophy is given to the most outstanding football player in American who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field.\u00a0This is the second straight year that Brown has been nominated for the award.<br>\u00a0<br>On the season, Brown has punted 21 times for an average of 46.3 yards per punt, including a long of 59 yards. Nine of his punts have gone for more than 50 yards and he&#8217;s forced eight fair catches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brown_Mac_2020.jpg?resize=300%2C415\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brown_Mac_2020.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brown_Mac_2020.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Mac Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The <strong>Eden Prairie, Minnesota<\/strong>, native also excels off the field. Brown, a 2020 <strong>Wuerffel Trophy<\/strong> semifinalist, has raised over $101,000 for ALS research through <strong>Mac Brown&#8217;s Awesome Lemonade Stand<\/strong>. When he was in seventh grade, Brown had a modest goal of raising $500 for a childhood friend&#8217;s dad who had been diagnosed with ALS. Along with a group of neighborhood friends, Brown started a lemonade stand to help his friend&#8217;s family. The fundraiser is held in June of every year and this year&#8217;s virtual fundraiser raised more than $30,000 alone.<br>\u00a0<br>The Burlsworth Trophy is named in honor of <strong>Brandon Burlsworth<\/strong>, former <strong>University of Arkansas<\/strong> walk-on and offensive lineman.\u00a0Burlsworth became a three-year starter and was eventually named an All-American in 1998. Burlsworth was selected as the 63rd overall pick by the Indianapolis Colts in the 1999 NFL draft, but was tragically killed in a car accident 11 days later.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>An awards ceremony virtually on January 4, 2021 to honor the three finalists and to announce the 2020 winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss senior punter Mac Brown\u00a0was one of 67 players nominated from NCAA Division I (FBS) schools across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":107922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17724,17723,17725,40,17708,9780,7067,700,655],"class_list":["post-107919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-brandon-burlsworth-foundation","tag-burlsworth-trophy","tag-eden-prairie","tag-football","tag-mac-brown","tag-minnesota","tag-ole-miss","tag-rebels","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MacBrown-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}