Senior running back Shock Linwood was announced as the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for the second time in his career Monday. Linwood is also the fifth Baylor football player to be recognized by the conference this season.
Head coach Jim Grobe had nothing but positive things to say about Linwood during Saturday’s postgame press conference.
“I told Shock back in the hallway that, ‘This is the Shock Linwood everybody told me about. This is the guy that everybody was talking about, and I hadn’t really seen that guy early,’” Grobe said. “When he got challenged, when he didn’t play a lot last week, he had a great week of practice, and that’s typically what happens.