{"id":43160,"date":"2017-11-29T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=43160"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:39:03","slug":"ole-miss-a-j-brown-wins-2017-c-spire-conerly-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-a-j-brown-wins-2017-c-spire-conerly-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss\u2019 A.J. Brown Wins 2017 C Spire Conerly Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Junior Wideout Becomes the Seventh Rebel to Win the Prestigious Award<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ole Miss<\/strong> wide receiver A.J. Brown<\/strong> won the 2017 C Spire Conerly Trophy<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0night as Mississippi\u2019s most outstanding college football player this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now in its 22nd year, the C Spire Conerly Trophy is named after the late Charlie Conerly<\/strong>\u2014the only football inductee in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame<\/strong> who was an All-American at a Mississippi university, an NFL rookie of the year and NFL All-Pro member and quarterbacked a team to a world championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown, a sophomore from Starkville<\/strong>, Mississippi, finished the 2017 season as the Ole Miss single-season record-holder in receiving yards (1,252) and tied for the top spot in receiving touchdowns (11). He leads the SEC and ranks sixth nationally in receiving yards per game (104.3).<\/span><\/p>\n

His six 100-yard receiving games is tied for best in a single season, equaling\u00a0Laquon Treadwell<\/strong>‘s\u00a0mark in 2015. Brown finished third on the single-season record charts in receptions (75).<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown becomes the seventh Rebel, eighth time overall, to win the prestigious award. It also marks the first time Ole Miss has won the award in back-to-back seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n

The six former Rebels to win the Conerly Trophy include: Stewart Patridge<\/strong> (1997), Deuce McAllister<\/strong> (1999),\u00a0Eli Manning<\/strong>\u00a0(2001, 2003),\u00a0Patrick Willis<\/strong>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0Bo Wallace<\/strong>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0Evan Engram<\/strong>\u00a0(2016).<\/span><\/p>\n

He beat out nine other finalists, representing each of the 10 football-playing universities and colleges in the state.\u00a0Other finalists were Alcorn State<\/strong> RB De’Lance Turner<\/strong>, Belhaven<\/strong> QB Hunter McEachern<\/strong>, Delta State<\/strong> RB Chris Robinson<\/strong>, Jackson State<\/strong> LB Shawn Bishop,<\/strong> Millsaps<\/strong> LB Jacob Kendall<\/strong>, Mississippi College<\/strong> DB Chris Manning<\/strong>, Mississippi State<\/strong> QB Nick Fitzgerald<\/strong>, Mississippi Valley State<\/strong> DB Mark Pegues<\/strong>, and Southern Miss<\/strong> RB Ito Smith<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow Ole Miss Football on Twitter (@OleMissFB<\/a>),\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>. For more information, visit\u00a0www.OleMissSports.com<\/a>.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Junior Wideout Becomes the Seventh Rebel to Win the Prestigious Award Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown won<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":12281,"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":[6],"tags":[7749,1637,11245,11246,2302,4103,2005,40,1647,11247,5,7067,4,2894,700,2311,1728,11248],"class_list":["post-43160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-a-j-brown","tag-bo-wallace","tag-c-spire-conerly-trophy","tag-charlie-conerly","tag-deuce-mcallister","tag-eli-manning","tag-evan-engram","tag-football","tag-laquon-treadwell","tag-mississipi-sports-hall-of-fame","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-patrick-willis","tag-rebels","tag-sec","tag-starkville","tag-stewart-partridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FootballFeatImg.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160","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=43160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}