WORCESTER, Mass. - Holy Cross senior linebacker Ricky Otis (Cleves, Ohio) has been selected to the 2011 College Football Performance Awards Watch List for the Football Championship Subdivision Linebacker Award. Otis was one of 41 players from teams around the nation named to the list.
Otis earned first team All-Patriot League honors in 2010, after playing in nine games and starting every time. Despite missing two games early in the year due to injury, he led the team with 108 total tackles, including 74 solo stops and two tackles for loss. Otis also registered a forced fumble, a pass breakup and two fumble recoveries this season. He led the Patriot League in tackles and ranked second in fumble recoveries, while reaching double-figures in tackles seven times. Over the course of his collegiate career, Otis has now totaled 135 tackles in 28 games played.
The purpose of the College Football Performance Awards is to provide the most scientifically rigorous conferments in college football. Recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams. As prominent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines note, CFPA eliminates the politics and biases that vitiate balloting-based awards. For more information, visit www.collegefootballperformance.com.
2011 CFPA FCS Linebacker Award Watch List
Justin Wray, Appalachian State
Jer-ryan Harris, Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Ryan Davis, Bethune-Cookman
Ryan Lewis, Bethune-Cookman
Jordan Ridley, Butler
Ryan Consiglio, Chattanooga
Andrae Jacobs, Coastal Carolina
John Behm, Davidson
Serge Kona, Duquesne
Tyson Patrick, Eastern Kentucky
Zach Johnson, Eastern Washington
Kadarron Anderson, Furman
Jake Muasau, Georgia State
Cliff Exama, Grambling
Ricky Otis, Holy Cross
Keith Pough, Howard
A.J. Storms, Idaho State
Milton Patterson, Jackson State
Rodney Garrott, Jacksonville State
Pat Williams, James Madison
Stephon Robertson, James Madison
Mike Groome, Lehigh
Tanner Rivas, Lehigh
Jordan Tripp, Montana
Allen Stephens, Morgan State
Roger Stewart, North Carolina Central
Corwin Hammond, Norfolk State
Derek Rose, Northwestern State
Craig Wilkins, Old Dominion
Darius McMillan, Richmond
Will Henry, Sam Houston State
Justin Woodlief, Southeast Missouri State
Anthony Balancier, Southern
Devin Ducote, Stephen F. Austin
Marcus Edwards, Tennessee Tech
Shomari Clemson, Texas Southern
Tyler Holmes, UMass
Matt Evans, New Hampshire
A.J. Gross, VMI
Dante Cook, William & Mary
Jordan Haynes, Yale
