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Tolbert, Mobley and Grupe Earn Week 1 Football Honors

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Jalen Tolbert, South Alabama
With career-best totals of 169 yards on six catches in the Jaguars’ season-opening victory at Southern Mississippi, Tolbert became the first player in school history to post back-to-back games with multiple touchdown catches. He had a school-record four in the 2019 finale against Arkansas State, while also recording the program’s first consecutive 100-yard receiving games since Jamarius Way accomplished the feat on Sept. 15 and 22, 2018. The junior wide receiver gave South the lead for good when he took the third play of the game 73 yards for a touchdown, scoring again with a 31-yard reception to cap the Jags’ opening possession of the second half before adding a 31-yard catch on fourth down to keep a drive alive later in the quarter that resulted in a field goal and a 23-13 advantage.