JACKSON — Ole Miss football wide receiver A.J. Brown and Mississippi College running back Tiberias Lampkin were named Monday one of 10 nominees for the Conerly Trophy, the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum announced Monday.
The award is given to the most outstanding college football player in the state of Mississippi. The winner will be announced Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Country Club of Jackson.
Brown, who won the Conerly Trophy in 2017, will look to join Eli Manning and Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott as the only players to win the award twice.
A junior out of Starkville, Brown has re-written the receiving record books in his three years at Ole Miss. He stands as the all-time leading receiver in Ole Miss history with 2,923 yards. He has 12 100-yard receiving performances during his career, also a program record.
Brown has amassed 1,259 yards this season, breaking his single-season school record of 1,252, set in 2017. He’s the only player in Ole Miss history with two 1,000-yard seasons. He is one reception shy of the all-time single-season mark of 82, set by Laquon Treadwell in 2015.
Brown leads the Southeastern Conference and ranks fourth in the nation with 114.5 receiving yards per game. He also is first in the SEC and is seventh in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) with 7.4 receptions per game.
Brown also was a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award this season and in 2017. He is also on the watch lists for the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award. Brown was a preseason first-team All-American according to six outlets and a second-team honoree by another.
The San Diego Padres selected Brown in the 19th round of the 2016 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He has participated in the team’s extended spring training each of the past three summers.
Lampkin, a former standout at West Oktibbeha County High School and Northeast Mississippi Community College, rushed for 778 yards and six touchdowns in 2018. He ranked fifth in the Gulf South Conference with 77.8 rushing yards per game. The second-year player rushed for a career-high 126 yards and two touchdowns against Florida Tech (Oct. 6). He carried the ball a season-high 25 times for 117 yards and a score in the season finale against Delta State.
For his career, Lampkin rushed for 1,426 yards on 267 carries with seven touchdowns.
Players are chosen for the Conerly Trophy by their schools. A combination of votes from the C Spire fan voting and a poll of sports news media representatives determine the winner. Fan voting runs through noon on Sunday. Voters can cast a ballot up to three times per day at www.cspire.com/Conerly.
Tickets are on sale now for the Conerly Trophy banquet at the Hall of Fame office and online at www.msfame.com. Advance tickets are required. No sales will be available at the doors. All proceeds benefit the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
This year’s keynote speaker is Ole Miss great and former Conerly Trophy winner Deuce McAllister.
Quez Watkins (wide receiver, Southern Mississippi), Noah Johnson (quarterback, Alcorn State), Booker Chambers (wide receiver/running back, Mississippi Valley State), Denarrius Noel (linebacker, Belhaven), Patrick Shegog (quarterback, Delta State), Christian Jacquemin (kicker/punter, Jackson State), and Chandler Coleman (linebacker, Millsaps) also were nominated.
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