South Dakota State University tight end Dallas Goedert earned Missouri Valley Football Conference Player of the Week honors and linebacker Christian Rozeboom was named Newcomer of the Week, league officials announced Sunday evening.
A junior from Britton, Goedert tied a school record with four touchdown receptions and also established new career highs with eight total receptions and 204 receiving yards as the Jackrabbits opened league play with a 52-14 home victory over Western Illinois on Oct. 1.
He scored SDSU’s first three touchdowns – all in the first half – on plays of 24, 25 and 24 yards. His fourth touchdown covered 70 yards midway through the third quarter and tied Don Bartlett’s mark of four receiving touchdowns set in a 1949 game against North Dakota State.
Goedert’s 204 receiving yards marked the sixth-highest single-game total in program history. He has now caught a touchdown pass in all four games this season and five in a row dating back to the 2015 campaign.
Rozeboom, a redshirt freshman from Sioux Center, Iowa, recorded a game-high 10 tackles, including a sack, and returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown in SDSU’s victory over Western Illinois. Rozeboom’s interception return came on the first offensive series of the second half and extended the Jackrabbits’ lead to 35-14. It was the first of two interception returns for touchdowns in the third quarter by SDSU, which held the Fighting Leathernecks scoreless over the final three quarters.
