North Dakota State quarterback Trey Lance was named the winner of the STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award on Wednesday as the national freshman of the year in the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision.
He is the first NDSU player to win the award.
Lance, a 6-foot-3, 221-pound redshirt freshman from Marshall, Minn., is also a top-four finalist for the STATS FCS Walter Payton Award for the offensive player of the year.
Lance ranks first in the FCS in passing efficiency (187.8), first in yards per pass attempt (10.03), third in pass completion percentage (.685), and seventh in total points responsible for (216) through 13 games. He was the first freshman to be named Missouri Valley Football Conference Offensive Player of the Year and was the fourth to take the league’s Newcomer of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards.
