Northwest Notes: Aug. 6, 2021
Big Sky boasts most linebackers
on Buchanan Award Watch List
FARMINGTON, Utah — Four linebackers and one defensive back headline the Big Sky's representatives on the 2021 Buck Buchanan Award Watch List, as Stats Perform continued its preseason honor announcements leading into the fall football campaign.
Linebackers Troy Andersen of Montana State, La’akea Kaho’ohanohano-Davis of Southern Utah, Jace Lewis of Montana and Tre Walker of Idaho made the cut, while defensive back Anthony Adams of Portland State rounded out the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List honorees for the Big Sky.
Four of the 14 linebackers on the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List hail from the Big Sky, as the league boasts the most linebackers on the list of any conference. Kaho’ohanohano-Davis and Walker were both finalists for the award in the 2021 spring slate, while Adams was a finalist back in 2019.
Dexter Coakley won the inaugural Buchanan in 1995 and repeated a year later, but there hasn’t been a two-time recipient since, although other past winners such as Rashean Mathis, Jared Allen and Arthur Moats joined Coakley with excellent NFL careers.
Camp Starts Tomorrow, Single Game Tickets on Sale Now
Vandals to start fall camp today;
season tickets now on sale
MOSCOW — The 2021 Idaho Football Season, presented by Immunize Idaho, gets underway Friday with the opening of fall camp. Practice kicks off at 6:30 p.m. on the brand new East Practice Field.
Season tickets to the five-game home slate are on sale now at GoVandals.com/Tickets or by calling the Vandal Ticket Office at 208-885-6466. Single game tickets are also now available. Kickoff times are set for all home games. The Vandals will kickoff at 2 p.m. when the Vikings from Portland State come to town for Vandal Fest, Oct. 9. Idaho’s matchup with Montana for the Little Brown Stein will kickoff at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 30. All other home games will begin at 1 p.m.
The Vandals return the bulk of their roster from the shortened spring season, including Big Sky Conference Preseason Defensive Most Valuable Player Tre Walker. Walker led the league in the spring with 13.5 tackles per game, earning five All-America honors along the way. Walker is joined by five fellow All-Big Sky honorees from a season ago, in Tyrese Dedmon, Jalen Hoover, Fa’Avae Fa’Avae, Jonah Kim and Rahsaan Crawford.
Offensively, Preseason All-Big Sky selection Logan Kendall leads the way. The fourth-year student-athlete from Cheney earned his first All-America nod in the spring and has been ranked among the best fullbacks in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) this offseason. The majority of the offense from the spring returns and has been bolstered by a handful of talented transfers.