FARGO, N.D. (NDSU Athletics)- North Dakota State running back CharMar Brown was named the 2024 Jerry Rice Award winner on Wednesday, Dec. 4, by Stats Perform. The award goes to the national freshman player of the year in the Football Championship Subdivision and is named after the Hall of Fame wide receiver who played at the FCS level for Mississippi Valley State.
Selected from 25 finalists by a 56-member voting panel, Brown will be honored at the Stats Perform FCS National Awards Banquet on Jan. 4 in Frisco, Texas. He joins 2019 quarterback Trey Lance as the second award recipient from NDSU, the first program with more than one winner in the 14-year history of the Jerry Rice Award.
Brown, a redshirt freshman from Omaha, Neb., led all FCS freshmen in carries (189), rushing yards (965) and rushing touchdowns (14) during the regular season. He had four 100-yard rushing games, three other games of 80-plus yards, and scored touchdowns in 9 of 12 games for the Bison, who won a share of the Missouri Valley Football Conference championship with a 7-1 league record and earned the No. 2 seed for the FCS playoffs with a 10-2 record.
Brown was a four-time MVFC Newcomer of the Week, swept the league’s Newcomer of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards, and was named to the All-MVFC second team. He ranked fifth in the conference for rushing yards and tied for third in rushing touchdowns.
Brown received 21 first-place votes and totaled 183 points, five points ahead of Montana State running back Adam Jones, who garnered 16 first-place votes.
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