For the second time this month, South Dakota State University quarterback Taryn Christion has been named Missouri Valley Football Conference Offensive Player of the Week and linebacker Christian Rozeboom has earned the league’s Newcomer of the Week award.

Christion, a sophomore from Sioux Falls, repeated as the Offensive Player of the Week after helping lead the Jackrabbits to a 19-17 come-from-behind victory Oct. 15 at defending national champion North Dakota State. Christion accounted for 444 yards of total offense, completing 24-of-42 passes for 303 yards and rushing 20 times for 141 yards.

He threw a pair of touchdown passes in the game, including a 2-yarder to Jake Wieneke with one second remaining in the contest. In addition, Christion became the first Jackrabbit quarterback to throw and rush for more than 100 yards in the same game in 28 years. His 444 yards of total offense was the second-highest single-game total in program history, trailing only the 475 yards of total offense (466 passing, 9 rushing) the previous week in a week at Southern Illinois. Christion also was named the FCS National Performer of the Week by College Football Performance Awards on Sunday

. Rozeboom, a redshirt freshman from Sioux Center, Iowa, recorded a team-high 12 tackles, including a key sack in the fourth quarter, to help lead the Jackrabbit defense in the win at North Dakota State. As a team, the Jackrabbits limited NDSU to one first down in the fourth quarter, allowing the SDSU offense to score the final 16 points of the game between the third and fourth quarters.

Rozeboom was earlier honored as the MVFC Newcomer of the Week for his in the Jackrabbits’ league-opening win over Western Illinois on Oct. 1. He currently leads the team with 66 tackles and has posted double figures for tackles in each of SDSU’s last three games and four times overall this season.