Football | 9/8/2025 9:14:14 AM

Official Release

Alabama A&M’s Cornelious Brown IV and Delaware State were selected Monday as the Stats Perform HBCU National Player and Team of the Week, respectively, for Week 2 FCS college football games through Saturday.

The weekly honors lead up to the Stats Perform FCS National Awards Presentation on Jan. 3 in Nashville, Tennessee. The season-ending awards are in their 39th year.

HBCU FCS National Team of the Week

Delaware State (37-32 win over UAlbany)

The Hornets from the MEAC waited through a fourth-quarter weather delay of more than three hours to have quarterback Kaiden Bennett score on a 27-yard run and erase a 32-31 deficit with 34 seconds remaining. Bennett, a grad transfer, finished with three rushing TDs and had 275 yards of total offense in coach first-year coach DeSean Jackson’s first win. With the upset, DSU ended an 11-game losing streak.

Honorable Mention: Alabama State (30-7 win at Southern)