USF Football’s Shuler Named National Defensive Player of the Week by Bronko Nagurski and Walter Camp Awards

Linebacker posted career-best 14 tackles in win over No. 25 Boise State
 
TAMPA, FLA., Sept. 3, 2025 – South Florida graduate linebacker Jhalyn Shuler has been named the Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week and the Walter Camp National FBS Defensive Player of the Week following the Bulls 34-7 upset of No. 25 Boise State in entrance of a nationwide tv viewers on ESPN.
 
Shuler, who was earlier named the American Conference Defensive Player of the Week and in addition earned the Frisco Bowl Defensive Player of the Week honor, was all around the area posting a career-best 14 tackles in main a formidable effort for the Bulls protection. Shuler added a deal with for loss and a fumble restoration on Boise State’s first drive of the sport, ending a scoring menace on the USF39. He is simply the fourth Bull to earn the Walter Camp weekly honor, which was beforehand acquired by George Selvie (Nov. 26, 2006 and Sept. 23, 2007), Ben Moffit (Sept. 30, 2007) and Nate Allen (Oct. 4, 2009).
 
The Bulls protection held the Broncos 30 factors beneath their 2024 season scoring common and to their lowest scoring output since 2019. South Florida pressured three turnovers within the recreation – all fumbles – in opposition to a Bronco workforce that fumbled 5 occasions in 2024, and acquired 4 stops on six Boise State fourth down makes an attempt. The Broncos’ 122 speeding yards marked their second-fewest because the begin of the 2023 season. After happening 7-0, USF held Boise State scoreless for the ultimate three quarters in reeling of 34 straight factors.
 
Several Bulls earned recognition for his or her excellent play in main South Florida to its first victory over a ranked opponent since 2016 and the second-largest victory margin (27 factors) over a ranked foe in program historical past.
 
Quarterback Byrum Brown returned to begin underneath heart for the primary time in 11 months following an harm in 2024, and earned Davey O’Brien Award “Great 8” nationwide recognition for his efficiency. The O’Brien Award additionally added Brown to its 2025 season award watch listing. The 6-3, 232-pound senior was spectacular posting 253 complete yards (210 passing and 43 speeding) and two speeding touchdowns, as he ran over and thru Boise State defenders to attain on runs of 23 and 15 yards. He accomplished 67 % of his passes – hitting eight totally different receivers – and earned a career-best grade of 92.2 by Pro Football Focus.
 
Brown additionally acquired an Honorable Mention American Conference Offensive Player of the Week nod.
 
Linebacker Mac Harris was named to the Pro Football Focuses National Team of the Week after posting eight tackles and an enormous, pressured fumble that ended Boise State’s opening drive on the USF39.
 
The Bulls acquired 25 votes within the Week 2 Associated Press Top 25 Poll and 9 within the Coaches Poll.
 
Up Next:
USF will journey to No. 13 Florida Saturday for a 4:15 p.m. kickoff at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville. The recreation will probably be broadcast by the SEC Network and might be heard on Q105 FM and Bulls Unlimited digital radio.
 
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF soccer program first took the sector in 1997 and accomplished its twenty eighth season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory within the Hawai’i Bowl. Head coach Alex Golesh posted a program-best six-game turnaround and a Boca Raton Bowl victory in his first season in 2023. USF accomplished building on a brand new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $340-million on-campus stadium and soccer operations heart broke floor within the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 17 successful seasons, earned 16 All-America choices (together with two consensus choices, the final coming in 2021), in addition to 33 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 gamers chosen within the NFL Draft and the Bulls have made 12 bowl recreation appearances (going 8-4), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and making 4 straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, whereas ending each seasons ranked within the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked within the Top 25 in the course of the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as excessive as No. 2 within the Associated Press rankings in the course of the 2007 season.
 

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