The awards keep streaming in for Christian McCaffrey.
The Stanford all-around dynamo was announced as the winner of the Jet Award earlier this week? Never heard of the Jet Award? It’s hard to blame you.
The Johnny Rodgers National College Football Return Specialist Award -- also known as the Jet Award -- was created in 2011 to honor the Nebraska return man by the same name.
McCaffrey totaled 37 kickoff returns for 1,070 yards and one touchdown -- good for a 28.92 average, which ranked eighth nationally. The rising junior also returned 15 punts for 130 yards and a score. Overall, McCaffrey, the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2015, broke Barry Sanders’ single-season all-purpose yardage record with 3,864 yards.
McCaffrey beat out USC’s Adoree Jackson and Rutgers’s Janorian Grant for the honor. Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett claimed the award in 2014 and Stanford’s Ty Montgomery garnered the honor in 2013. He’ll be honored at a banquet in Omaha this April.