Shenault, Landman, Montez and MacIntyre Mentioned On Midseason Awards And Trophy Watch Lists
October 18, 2018 | Football
BOULDER – Sophomores Laviska Shenault Jr. and Nate Landman, junior Steven Montez and coach Mike MacIntyre this week were named to a variety of different midseason awards lists and national award watch lists.Â
Shenault was named a first-team Midseason All-American by most publications that produce such a list, including The Athletic, CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, Rivals.com and Pro Football Focus. He was also named to the midseason All-Pac-12 teams by Pro Football Focus and Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News.Â
Landman made the cut for the Lott IMPACT Trophy as one of 20 players nationally on the quarterfinal list. The award is given to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.  He was also named to the Pro Football Focus midseason All-Pac-12 team.Â
Montez was added to the Manning Award Watch List, one of 10 quarterbacks added to the list of 30 on the preseason list. The Manning Award is sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl and is the only quarterback honor to take into account performance in the bowl games. Â
MacIntyre was named to his second watch list for National Coach of the Year. Last week he was added to the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year midseason list and earlier this week he was added to the 2018 Paul "Bear" Bryant watch list. He won the Bobby Dodd Trophy in 2016.
Shenault leads the nation in receiving (10.0 per game) and receiving yards (130.0 per game) with 60 catches for 780 yards through six games. He has 11 total touchdowns, six receiving and five rushing, becoming just the second player in program history to record five rushing and receiving touchdowns in the same season (Mike Pritchard, 1990, 6 receiving, 5 rushing). His 11 touchdowns through six games are the third most in program history behind Rashaan Salaam's Heisman Trophy winning season of 1994 when he had 16 and College Football Hall of Famer Bobby Anderson's total of 13 in 1969.Â
A deeper look inside Shenault's numbers prove even more impressive. More than two-thirds of his yards have come after catch (521-of-780, 66.8 percent) and an astounding 35.3 percent (275 yards) have come after contact. He's made 12 defenders totally miss him and broken another 22 tackles on those 60 catches. His rushing numbers are also impressive with 15 carries for 87 yards and five touchdowns. On the ground, almost half his yards (41-of-87, 47.1 percent) have come after contact. He's made another three defenders miss and broken six more tackles on the ground.
On his 75 touches, he's scored a touchdown on 11 of them, there was no tackle on six and he ran out of bounds six more times. Of the 53 touches he was tackled on, he's been tackled by one player just 14 times while it took two defenders to bring him down 19 times and he has been gang tackled by three or more players a total of 20 times. What's more, he's missed what equals one game of action after sitting out the fourth quarter of both the Nebraska and USC games and the second half against New Hampshire.Â
Montez has completed over 70 percent of his passes (141-of-200, .705) for 1,590 yards ith 11 touchdowns and just three interceptions. He also has four rushing touchdowns. He's on pace to break the school record for completion percentage, as well as many other school marks. A deeper look inside the 59 incompletions he's had in six games shows accuracy at an even higher rate. He's thrown away 11 passes, 13 have been broken up, six have been dropped and twice a receiver has fallen down on his route. He's had three passes intercepted and missed on just 24 of the other 197 passes, or just 12.2 percent of the time.Â
Landman's numbers have also been impressive. He leads the Buffs with 9.9 tackles per game, a total of 59 on the season. He has one sack and seven total tackles for loss and three more for no gain. He leads the squad with two interceptions and has five third down stops, two of which came on fourth down, one quarterback pressure, one forced fumble and one pass break-up.Â
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Shenault was named a first-team Midseason All-American by most publications that produce such a list, including The Athletic, CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, Rivals.com and Pro Football Focus. He was also named to the midseason All-Pac-12 teams by Pro Football Focus and Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News.Â
Landman made the cut for the Lott IMPACT Trophy as one of 20 players nationally on the quarterfinal list. The award is given to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.  He was also named to the Pro Football Focus midseason All-Pac-12 team.Â
Montez was added to the Manning Award Watch List, one of 10 quarterbacks added to the list of 30 on the preseason list. The Manning Award is sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl and is the only quarterback honor to take into account performance in the bowl games. Â
MacIntyre was named to his second watch list for National Coach of the Year. Last week he was added to the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year midseason list and earlier this week he was added to the 2018 Paul "Bear" Bryant watch list. He won the Bobby Dodd Trophy in 2016.
Shenault leads the nation in receiving (10.0 per game) and receiving yards (130.0 per game) with 60 catches for 780 yards through six games. He has 11 total touchdowns, six receiving and five rushing, becoming just the second player in program history to record five rushing and receiving touchdowns in the same season (Mike Pritchard, 1990, 6 receiving, 5 rushing). His 11 touchdowns through six games are the third most in program history behind Rashaan Salaam's Heisman Trophy winning season of 1994 when he had 16 and College Football Hall of Famer Bobby Anderson's total of 13 in 1969.Â
A deeper look inside Shenault's numbers prove even more impressive. More than two-thirds of his yards have come after catch (521-of-780, 66.8 percent) and an astounding 35.3 percent (275 yards) have come after contact. He's made 12 defenders totally miss him and broken another 22 tackles on those 60 catches. His rushing numbers are also impressive with 15 carries for 87 yards and five touchdowns. On the ground, almost half his yards (41-of-87, 47.1 percent) have come after contact. He's made another three defenders miss and broken six more tackles on the ground.
On his 75 touches, he's scored a touchdown on 11 of them, there was no tackle on six and he ran out of bounds six more times. Of the 53 touches he was tackled on, he's been tackled by one player just 14 times while it took two defenders to bring him down 19 times and he has been gang tackled by three or more players a total of 20 times. What's more, he's missed what equals one game of action after sitting out the fourth quarter of both the Nebraska and USC games and the second half against New Hampshire.Â
Montez has completed over 70 percent of his passes (141-of-200, .705) for 1,590 yards ith 11 touchdowns and just three interceptions. He also has four rushing touchdowns. He's on pace to break the school record for completion percentage, as well as many other school marks. A deeper look inside the 59 incompletions he's had in six games shows accuracy at an even higher rate. He's thrown away 11 passes, 13 have been broken up, six have been dropped and twice a receiver has fallen down on his route. He's had three passes intercepted and missed on just 24 of the other 197 passes, or just 12.2 percent of the time.Â
Landman's numbers have also been impressive. He leads the Buffs with 9.9 tackles per game, a total of 59 on the season. He has one sack and seven total tackles for loss and three more for no gain. He leads the squad with two interceptions and has five third down stops, two of which came on fourth down, one quarterback pressure, one forced fumble and one pass break-up.Â
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