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DUNLAP ― If you just look at Jaron Thomas’s offensive stats, he’d be worthy of making any all-area or all-state team.
If you just look at his defensive stats, too, you’d think the same thing.
Thomas did it all in his senior year at Concord, earning him the 2024 South Bend Tribune Football Player of the Year selection.
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“Honestly, it means a lot, especially around this area ― there’s so much talent around this area,” said Thomas of the selection. “To be the Football Player of the Year is very special. … I knew I was capable of having the year I had. It was just about how hard I worked and what I really wanted to make out of my senior year.”
It was a fantastic season for the Purdue-bound Thomas. Signing with the Boilermakers as a running back, Thomas lived up to his Division-I status on that side of the ball by totaling 1,442 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns.
That only tells half the story with Thomas, though, as he also led the Minutemen with 146 tackles on defense. He added 3.5 sacks for good measure.
Thomas was selected as the “Mr. Football” for the running back position by the Indiana Football Coaches Association for his efforts. He could’ve easily been in the conversation for it at linebacker as well.
“I had just woken up, and my coach (Craig Koehler) was calling me about it to tell me he had just gotten out of the meeting and I was named that,” said Thomas of the “Mr. Football” honor. “It was a crazy feeling because that’s a dream. I would never expect anything like that. I look up to people who did stuff like that, so to be able to go out there and win a big, prestigious award like that is…
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Author : South Bend Tribune
Publish date : 2024-12-16 09:08:00
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