Marcus Williams Earns 2011 College Football Performance FCS Defensive Back Award
1/3/2012 9:03:00 PM | Football
DAVIDSON, N.C.–North Dakota State University cornerback Marcus Williams earned the 2011 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Defensive Back Award, announced today by College Football Performance Awards (CFPA).
All CFPA recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams.
Williams is the second North Dakota State performer to receive annual CFPA accolades, following 2010 CFPA FCS Punter Award winner John Prelvitz. The full list of 2011 College Football Performance Awards recipients will be announced on Jan. 11.
A 5-foot-11, 186-pound, sophomore from Minneapolis, Minn. (Hopkins H.S.), Williams leads the Valley and is tied for 4th nationally with seven interceptions. He is one away from school record of eight set by Frank Esposito in 1953.
Williams was
a first-team All-MVFC, a MVFC Defensive Player of the Week and a MVFC Special Teams
Player of the Week selection this season. He has earned Associated Press, The Sports Network/Fathead.com and Walter Camp Football Foundation FCS All-America honors.
Williams has scored three times on interceptions (including lateral from Colten Heagle at Minnesota) and once on kickoff return this season. He leads the Valley and is tied for 8th nationally in passes defended. Williams has 23 of 28 games in career with at least one pass defended. He had career-high nine tackles vs. Illinois State and vs. Youngstown State. Williams recorded two interceptions at Southern Illinois and at Western Illinois.
North Dakota State squares off with Sam Houston State in the 2012 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in FC Dallas Stadium at Frisco, Texas.
