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Virginia’s Mack wins Jim Tatum Award, Perkins and Taylor get weekly honors

The good news keeps rolling for Virginia Football following the Hoos big win over Virginia Tech. Three Virginia players — Bryce Perkins, Noah Taylor, and Jordan Mack — earned weekly and national awards for performances on and off the field.

Fourth year linebacker Jordan Mack was named the recipient of the Jim Tatum Award, the ACC announced on the conference’s network on Monday morning. The Jim Tatum Award is given to the ACC’s best football student-athlete, and Mack is the first Virginia recipient since tight end Tom Santi took it home in 2007. Mack, an education major with an emphasis on youth and social innovation, has a 3.