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12/07/20 - Jeffrey Gunter, rSr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

DEC 7 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jeffrey Gunter, Coastal Carolina,(#94, Jr, Bandit - Durham, N.C.),...Redshirt junior Jeffrey Gunter played a key role in a balanced defensive attack that held the high-powered BYU offense to just 17 points. It was a season-low for the Cougars who were averaging 47.6 points per game which ranked fourth nationally. Gunter was one of six Chanticleers with five tackles or more in the win finishing with six tackles, one tackle-for-loss, a forced a fumble, plus a quarterback hurry. Saturday night's win over No. 8 BYU is Coastal Carolinas best ever victory in terms of the opponents FBS ranking. The win was the Chants second-ever over a top-25 nationally-ranked opponent with both wins coming this year (30-27 win over then-No. 21 Louisiana on Oct. 14.) The Chants' 10-0 start is the best start by any football team in Sun Belt Conference history. - Sun Belt Football

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DE Jeffrey Gunter, Coastal Carolina
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12/05/20 - CJ Marable, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

Mateo Sudipo stopped BYU's Dax Milne at the 1-yard line as time expired and No. 14 Coastal Carolina beat the eighth-ranked Cougars 22-17 in short-notice showdown of 9-0 teams Saturday night. The Cougars (9-1, No. 13 CFP) were a late-week fill-in, traveling more than 2,200 miles to the South Carolina coast and eagerly stepping after No. 25 Liberty had to back out of the game Thursday due to COVID-19 concerns. It sure looked like an uphill climb for Coastal (10-0), the Sun Belt East champs, as BYU entered with one of the game's most dynamic passers in Zach Wilson and the fourth-highest scoring offense in the country at more than 47 points a game.

But the Chanticleers controlled the clock with three long touchdown drives and made plays when it counted - none bigger than when the freshman safety Sudipo corralled Milne a few steps from the end zone. It will go down as a 17-yard completion, but the Cougars needed 18 on their final play. That sealed Coastal Carolina's biggest victory in the program's four FBS seasons. Wilson was 19 of 30 for 240 yards, a touchdown and an interception. The Cougars defense, which had allowed less than 90 yards rushing a game coming in, was pounded by Coastal Carolina for 281 yards. CJ Marable rushed for 128 yards and two touchdowns for the Chanticleers. - Coastal Carolina/AP College Football

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RB CJ Marable, Coastal Carolina
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12/05/20 - Tarron Jackson, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

Coastal Carolina redshirt senior defensive end Tarron Jackson has been invited to participate in the 2021 Reese's Senior Bowl, set for Jan. 30, in Mobile, Alabama. The Senior Bowl is the nation's most unique football game and football's premier senior showcase event. Now in its 71st season, the event annually features the country's best senior collegiate football players and top NFL draft prospects on teams representing the North and South who are coached by the entire coaching staffs of two National Football League teams. The game will be televised on NFL Network. Jackson, who officially accepted the all-star game invite Thursday evening, leads the Chanticleers' defense this season with 8.5 sacks and 12.5 tackles-for-loss. He also leads the team with 15 quarterback hurries and is fifth in total tackles with 44 on the year. - Coastal Carolina Football

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DE Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina
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12/04/20 - Isaiah Likely, Sr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

The junior has emerged as perhaps CCU's most dangerous playmaker to help the Chants (9-0) reach No. 18 in the College Football Playoff ranking, and he is expected to have an opportunity to prove himself in the NFL when he chooses to leave school. "He's a special, special player. We think he's a next level player," CCU head coach Jamey Chadwell said. "He's 6-4, 250 and he runs really well. He's very gifted from a standpoint of being able to run and being very physical and strong, just a natural strength. He's got great hands. "The way the NFL is and the way they use tight ends I do think he has a good shot of having a chance to continue his playing career beyond college. He has that type of skill set."

Likely has 17 receptions for 423 yards and four TDs in eight games this season - which are all second or third on the team - for an average of 24.9 yards per catch, which is in the top five in the country. His production has come despite missing a game and otherwise playing through an undisclosed lower body injury that will require surgery after the season, according to Likely and Chadwell. "He's got a lot of toughness," Chadwell said. "He was banged up and we're trying to work him back in slowly and the last couple weeks he's gotten accustomed to his injury and playing through the pain, and he's had two really big games the last couple weeks and he's a huge part of our offense. He makes us very dynamic." - Myrtle Beach Online

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TE Isaiah Likely, Coastal Carolina
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12/02/20 - Silas Kelly, rSr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

Coastal Carolina redshirt senior linebacker Silas Kelly has been added to the 2020 Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Award watch list, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in association with The Associated Press (AP) and the Fiesta Bowl Organization. Kelly, who was injured in the second game of the season last year at Kansas (Sept. 7, 2019), leads the team with 67 tackles, 5.0 tackles-for-loss, 4.5 sacks, and an interception this year. He has totaled 8.0 tackles in six of the Chants' nine games this season, including a career-high 12 tackles in the home win over South Alabama (Nov. 7). - Coastal Carolina Football

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ILB Silas Kelly, Coastal Carolina
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12/01/20 - Sam Pinckney, rSr/2024, Coastal Carolina + More +

Georgia State wide receiver Sam Pinckney has been added to the 2020 Biletnikoff Award Watch List, as announced Monday by the The Tallahassee Quarterback Club (TQC) Foundation, Inc., the Florida-based creator and sponsor of this prestigious award. Pinckney, the redshirt sophomore from Greenwood, S.C., leads the Panthers with 44 receptions for 753 yards (17.1 yards per catch) and six touchdowns in nine games, ranking among the Sun Belt Conference leaders in all four categories. In Saturday's 30-24 comeback victory over Georgia Southern, Pinckney had a career-high 10 receptions for 126 yards, along with a 2-point conversion catch that gave the Panthers a three-point lead with three minutes left. That performance followed his 176-yard outing one game earlier at South Alabama as he combined for 15 receptions and 302 yards in the two wins. - Georgia State Football

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WR Sam Pinckney, Coastal Carolina
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12/01/20 - Tarron Jackson, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

For the third time this season, Coastal Carolina redshirt senior defensive end Tarron Jackson was named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week, it was announced on Monday. Jackson led the Coastal defense with six total tackles, five of which were solo stops, 2.5 sacks, and 3.0 tackles-for-loss in the Chants' 49-14 blowout win over Texas State on Saturday. The co-captain set the tone of the game with a sack on the very first play of the game. His 2.5 sacks and 3.0 tackles-for-loss matched season highs for a Chant defender in a single game this season. CCU held Texas State to just 318 total yards of offense on 202 passing yards and 116 rushing yards for the game. - Coastal Carolina Football

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DE Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina
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12/01/20 - Jaivon Heiligh, Sr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

Coastal Carolina junior wide receiver Jaivon Heiligh has been added to the 2020 Biletnikoff Award watch list, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club (TQC) Foundation, Inc., the Florida-based creator and sponsor of the prestigious Biletnikoff Award, announced on Monday. The Biletnikoff Award annually recognizes the college football season's outstanding FBS receiver. Any player regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back, and running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes college football's outstanding receiver, not merely college football's outstanding wide receiver.

In his third season at Coastal Carolina, Heiligh once again leads the team in receptions with 41, receiving yards with 682, and receiving touchdowns with eight. He is averaging 16.6 yards per catch this season and has twice hauled in two touchdown passes in the same game in wins over Georgia State (Oct. 31) and Texas State (Nov. 28). The Florida native posted back-to-back 100-yard receiving games with 108 yards at Louisiana (Oct. 14) and 107 yards in the win over Georgia Southern (Oct. 24) and has caught at least one pass in 24-straight games dating back to his freshman season in 2018. - Coastal Carolina Football

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WR Jaivon Heiligh, Coastal Carolina
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11/30/20 - Tarron Jackson, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

NOV 30 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina,...Tarron Jackson led the Coastal defense with six total tackles, five of which were solo stops, 2.5 sacks, and 3.0 tackles-for-loss in the Chants' 49-14 blowout win over Texas State. The redshirt-senior defensive end set the tone of the game with a sack on the very first play of the game. His 2.5 sacks and 3.0 TFL's matched season highs for a Chant defender in a single game this season. CCU held Texas State to just 318 total yards of offense on 202 passing yards and 116 rushing yards for the game. Coastal is 9-0, the best start ever by a Sun Belt Conference football team, and won the Sun Belt East Division Championship title in only their fourth year in the league. - Sun Belt Conference Football

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DE Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina
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11/28/20 - CJ Marable, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

C.J. Marable ran for 157 yards and three touchdowns and No. 16 Coastal Carolina wrapped up the Sun Belt Conference East Division title with a 49-14 victory over Texas State on Saturday. The Chanticleers (9-0, 7-0) had 572 yards of offense in extending their winning streak to 10 games. They moved up to the Football Bowl Subdivision three seasons ago. Texas State (2-10, 2-6) closed its sixth straight losing season. It was the second-most points the Bobcats have allowed in regulation this season. Texas State held a moment of silence for sophomore defensive back Khambrail Winters, who was fatally shot Tuesday what the San Marcos Police Department said was a drug deal gone wrong.

Coastal took command early at Bobcat Stadium, scoring touchdowns on its first two possessions route to a 35-7 lead at the half. The Chants drove 81 yards on their opening possession for the game's first touchdown. Marable had five rushes for 67 yards in the seven-play drive, including a 14-yard scoring run 1:14 into the game. The senior running back followed that with a 9-yard scoring run on Coastal's second possession. The 45-yard drive was set up when Chants junior safety Alex Spillum forced and recovered a fumble. It was Texas State's fourth fumble of the season. Marable added a 23-yeard scoring run two minutes into the third quarter. He closed with 16 carries, averaging 9.8 yards per attempt. The Chants rushed for 406 yards and five touchdowns. - Coastal Carolina/AP College Football

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RB CJ Marable, Coastal Carolina
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11/27/20 - DJordan Strong, rSr/2023, Coastal Carolina + More +

If you saw Coastal Carolina junior cornerback D'Jordan Strong during the team's break from football activities due to the coronavirus in the spring and early summer, chances are he was carrying and tossing a football. Strong joined the Chanticleers from Northeast Mississippi Community College in January, in time for CCU's early spring practices in February and early March. During those sessions, defensive backs coach Bryant Foster was impressed with Strong's ability to cover wide receivers, and he also noted that Strong was dropping the ball a lot. Strong had just one interception in two years of JUCO football - though he notes he had a 100-yard interception return negated by a penalty - while playing predominantly single man-to-man coverage.

"I used to drop a lot of balls in the spring, and coach Foster texted me when coronavirus was going on big-time and said, 'Hey man, don't think I'm being funny, but you get you a football and just walk around and throw it in the air and catch it and see how it feels. Man, you could lead the conference in interceptions this season and be a first-team Sun Belt cornerback because you've got the ability to do it. If you just do this one little thing you've got potential to be something,' " Strong recalled. "That's what I did, and now I've got five interceptions and that's crazy because coach Foster called it." - Myrtle Beach Online

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CB DJordan Strong, Coastal Carolina
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11/25/20 - Isaiah Likely, Sr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

Junior tight end Isaiah Likely was a big part of the CCU offense early in the season, but he has been hampered by a lower body injury of late that forced him to miss the Louisiana game on Oct. 17 and has affected his production. He also just hasn't been targeted much in recent games. In the three games prior to Saturday, Likely had three catches for 17 yards. But he was a focus Saturday. The big and fast 6-foot-4, 245-pounder was targeted on CCU's first offensive play despite having two Mountaineers in coverage and was hit by Grayson McCall for a 75-yard TD. He finished with three catches for 118 yards and had a drop that would have been a big gain.

"Whether I'm getting involved or not I love seeing my team celebrate, seeing my team in the end zone, blowing teams out and staying undefeated," Likely said. "So it happened today where we knew what they were going to do with the linebackers and safety, giving me the ball and letting me go do what they recruited, it was a just a fantastic opportunity." Likely now has 13 receptions for 350 yards and four TDs this season for an average of nearly 27 yards per catch. - Myrtle Beach Online

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TE Isaiah Likely, Coastal Carolina
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11/23/20 - C.J. Brewer, rSr/2022, Coastal Carolina + More +

NOV 23 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: C.J. Brewer, Coastal Carolina,...Redshirt senior defensive tackle C.J. Brewer had a career day in the win over Appalachian State last Saturday as he led the Chants to their first-ever win over the Mountaineers. Brewer totaled a career-high 14 tackles, which is also a team-high this season, and 3.0 tackles-for-loss which matched his team-high of 3.0 tackles-for-loss in the win over Kansas in the season opener on Sept. 12. He also added 1.5 sacks in the win with his solo sack coming on a third down on the Mountaineers' last drive of the game. The Coastal defense helped the Chants overcome a 17-9 halftime deficit by holding the Mountaineers to just two field goals over the second half of play. The Chants are now 8-0 on the season, the best start by a team in Sun Belt history, and the Chants' best start since moving to FBS in 2017. - Sun Belt Football

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DT C.J. Brewer, Coastal Carolina
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11/09/20 - Tarron Jackson, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

NOV 9 SUN BELT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina,...Redshirt senior defensive end Tarron Jackson led a defense that allowed just six points and 336 total yards while totaling five sacks, eight tackles-for-loss, and forced two fumbles in the home win over South Alabama on Saturday night. Jackson finished with 10 tackles, including 2.5 sacks, 2.5 tackles-for-loss, one forced fumble, and two quarterback hurries. CCU's defense has not allowed a touchdown over the last 10 quarters, two-plus games, and has been key in CCU going 7-0 to start this season, matching Appalachian State's 7-0 start last season as the best record to start a season in Sun Belt history. - Sun Belt Football

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DE Tarron Jackson, Coastal Carolina
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11/08/20 - Tarron Jackson, rSr/2021, Coastal Carolina + More +

NOV 8 WALTER CAMP NATIONAL FBS DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: TARRON JACKSON, COASTAL CAROLINA, Redshirt Senior, Defensive End, Aiken, SC/Silver Bluff HS,...Tarron Jackson recorded 10 tackles, 2.5 quarterback sacks, 2 quarterback hurries, and forced one fumble as 15th-ranked Coastal Carolina defeated South Alabama, 23-6. With the win, Coastal Carolina improved to 7-0, 5-0 in the Sun Belt Conference. - The Walter Camp Football Foundation

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