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Rucker Names Bednarik Player of the Week

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
- Kaimon Rucker, the ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week and Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, has also been named the Bednarik Award Player of the Week announced Wednesday by the Maxwell Football Club.

The Hartwell, Ga., native led a North Carolina defense that racked up 16 tackles for loss, nine sacks and held the Gamecocks to -2 yards rushing. Rucker tallied eight tackles, five and a half tackles for loss and two sacks alone in the Tar Heels’ season-opening victory over South Carolina.

North Carolina makes its 2023 Kenan Stadium debut on Saturday, Sept. 9 vs. Appalachian State, a 5:15 ET start on ACC Network.

Rucker Named Multiple Player of the Week Awards

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — University of North Carolina linebacker Kaimon Rucker has been named the Walter Camp National FBS Defensive Player of the Week, for games ending September 2.

Against South Carolina, Rucker recorded eight tackles (six solo), including 5.5 tackles for loss, and two quarterback sacks as North Carolina opened the 2023 season with a 31-17 victory over the Gamecocks in the Duke's Mayo Classic. Rucker led a Tar Heel defense that tallied nine sacks and limited South Carolina to -2 yards rushing.

Rucker became the seventh Tar Heel to earn the Walter Camp National Player of the Week honor since 2004 and is the first Tar Heel Defensive Player of the Week honoree since Kareem Martin in 2013.

This is the 20th year that the Walter Camp Football Foundation will honor one offensive and one defensive player as its national Football Bowl Subdivision player of the week during the regular season. Recipients are selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Foundation. It is the nation's longest running Player of Week award.
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