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Games of Sept. 27, 2025
The Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware, is D3football.com's weekly honor roll, in its 27th season of recognizing the top performance at each position from the previous week. Players are nominated by schools.
Offense
QB Noah Beaudrie, Sr., Adrian
Beaudrie led the Bulldogs to victory over Olivet with a season-high 396 passing yards and four touchdowns on 22 completions in 28 attempts. He also contributed in the run game, adding 39 yards on eight carries.
OL Trevor Gallagher, Nate Argiro, Logan Milito, Hunter Hanna, Jeremy Carter, Lebanon Valley
The Dutchmen's offensive line had another great game, allowing just one total sack in a 21-18 victory at Delaware Valley. The line allowed the Dutchmen to dominate the time of possession 33:52-21:08. The Dutchmen were able to close out the game in large part to the offensive line, as LVC allowed DVU just one fourth-quarter possession. The Dutchmen got the ball following an Aggie touchdown with 8:39 remaining and ran out the clock the rest of the way. LVC ran the ball 14 times and went 46 yards on the last possession that included a pair of kneel-downs in the final minute.
RB Paul Woodard, Jr., East Texas Baptist
Woodard had 170 yards on 22 carries with two touchdowns in a 24-21 win against Texas Lutheran. He produced two long runs in the game with one on a fourth-and-1 breaking free for a 48-yard run to make it 21-14 just before the half. He had back-to-back touchdown runs with his first at 6:28 in the second quarter to tie the game at 14. On that drive, he had five rushes for 17 yards ending with the five-yard touchdown run. On the next possession, ETBU started at its own 43 and four straight rushes from Woodard led to the go-ahead touchdown, ending on the aforementioned 48-yard run.
WR Arthur Poindexter, So., Albright
Widener had no answer for Poindexter as he went for 15 receptions, 231 yards and two touchdowns in a 35-9 win against Albright. The reception total was two shy of tying the Albright school record while the yards total was 14 yards shy of the program record.
WR Jacob Macosko, Sr., Washington & Jefferson
Macosko torched the secondary for No. 18 Grove City as the Presidents secured a dominant 34-14 victory. He hauled in a career-high 15 receptions for a career-high 180 yards while adding a touchdown reception. This marks the third consecutive season Macosko has compiled more than 10 or more receptions and 160 or more receiving yards in the head-to-head matchups with the Wolverines.
WR Tyler Dimond, Sr. Carleton
Dimond had seven catches for 181 yards and a touchdown in Carleton's 35-28 win over St. Olaf that allowed the Knights to reclaim the Goat Trophy. He averaged 25.9 yards per reception with five catches over 20 yards, including a 40-yard touchdown that gave Carleton a lead it would not relinquish. Dimond did all of his damage in the first half before missing the second half due to an injury.
TE Joey Gendreau, Sr., St. John's
Gendreau led the Johnnies with 10 receptions for 166 yards and a touchdown in SJU's 63-0 win vs. Augsburg. He has surpassed 100 receiving yards in every game this season.
Defense
DE Jake Walker, Jr., Wartburg
Walker recorded a season-high five tackles, three tackles for loss, two sacks, and a forced fumble that led to a touchdown late in the third quarter of then-No. 7 Wartburg's 17- win vs. Coe. He led a defense that limited Coe, averaging 621 yards and 57 points per game, to just 235 yards and 7 points.
DT Keidrick Wooten, Sr., Lyon
Wooten had eight tackles, including racking up four and a half tackles for loss in Lyon's 38-24 win vs. Westminster (Mo.). The Lyon defense allowed just 25 yards of offense on 29 run attempts and tallied 14 tackles for loss on the day. Wooten is Lyon's first-ever player named to the D3football.com Team of the Week.
DT Jackson Harris, Jr., McMurry
Harris played the hero Saturday with the game-winning touchdown for the War Hawks with a scoop-and-score for a 78-yard touchdown. Harris caused, recovered and returned the fumble after Howard Payne was in the red zone in a tied game. His score came with nine seconds remaining to seal the win and he also totaled four tackles with two tackles for loss and a sack.
DE Kile Jackson, Sr., Western Connecticut
Jackson had seven tackles. three and a half sacks for loss of 25 yards, and an interception in the Wolves' 38-7 win at Kean. He anchored the Wolves defensive front that held the Cougars to 8 rushing yards in 20 attempts.
LB Ryan Croston, Fr., Allegheny
Croston posted a season-high 11 tackles, all of them solo stops, for the Gators in a 28-16 loss against Geneva. He also posted his first collegiate sack, for a loss of 8 yards.
LB CJ Hangartner, Sr., Simpson
Hangartner delivered his second defensive touchdown of the season with a 74-yard interception return in the second quarter of Simpson's 41-0 win at Buena Vista. His pick-six marked the fourth-longest interception return in program history and jumpstarted a Storm defense that produced three defensive scores and the team's first shutout since 2019. Added six solo tackles, including one for loss, and a pass breakup.
CB Amare Johnson, So., North Park
Johnson broke up a pass and also blocked an extra point attempt that Ben Butler ended up returning more than 70 yards for a defensive two-point conversion. He also led North Park with seven tackles, three solo, and had a tackle for loss in the Vikings' 34-6 win vs. Elmhurst.
S Grant Henderson, Sr., Maryville
Henderson led the Scots' defense with 13 total tackles in a 34-30 win against Pikeville. He recorded two tackles for loss and had a key pass breakup to disrupt Pikeville's final drive, helping the Scots secure the win.
S Carter Foust, Sr., Lebanon Valley
Foust was responsible for three turnovers with two interceptions and a forced fumble to lead the Dutchmen to a 21-18 victory at Delaware Valley. He also had eight tackles and one pass breakup in the game. Foust picked off his first pass on DVU's first offensive possession as he gave LVC great field position with an 11-yard return from the DVU 45. Early in the second half, Foust forced a fumble at the LVC 45, which the Dutchmen recovered. His second interception of the game came late in the third quarter as he returned the ball 31 yards to the DVU 29. His second interception set the Dutchmen up for their final touchdown of the game, which gave them a 21-10 lead.
S Dante DeRubbo, So., Washington & Jefferson
DeRubbo was responsible for creating two costly turnovers in the Presidents' victory over No. 18 ranked Grove City, 34-14. DeRubbo collected his first and second collegiate interceptions against the Wolverines. His pick in the first quarter led to the first points of the game for the Presidents. DeRubbo also had three total tackles and an additional pass breakup.
CB Ben DeMeulenaere, Sr., Central
DeMeulenaere led the Dutch with nine tackles (six solo) while intercepting Dubuque's final offensivee play of the game in a 35-16 win Saturday. He also had a pass breakup and blocked an extra point attempt in the first quarter.
Special teams
K Aidan Ellison, Sr., North Central
Ellison was 3-for-3 on field goals, connecting from 49, 47 and 24 yards in a 44-14 win at WashU. He was also 5-for-5 on PATs. The 49 yard FG ranks in a tie for fifth longest in school history.
P Dylan Reid, Fr., Allegheny
Reid punted six times with an average of 40.0 yards per punt against Geneva. He had two kicks of more than 50 yards two downed inside the 20-yard line, with one of them downed at the 1. Reid avoided disaster in the second quarter, as he collected a high snap that sailed over his head into Allegheny's own end zone and still managed to salvage a 29-yard punt from more than 10 extra yards behind the line of scrimmage with defenders rushing at him.
RET Daniel Manneh, Sr., Brockport
Daniel Manneh lit the scoreboard up with three touchdowns in the first quarter, two of them in the return game for Brockport in a dominating 56-0 win vs. Hartwick. Manneh started the contest with an 80-yard return on the opening kickoff for his first touchdown of the day. Shortly after he scored on a touchdown pass, he took a punt all the way back for a 67-yard score for his third touchdown.
ST Ben Butler, Sr., North Park
Butler returned a pair of blocked kicks all the way on Saturday for a total of eight points for North Park as the Vikings defeated Elmhurst 34-6. He took a blocked field goal 85 yards for a touchdown and ran back a blocked extra point, taking the ball the final 73 yards of an 80-yard return after it was lateraled to him.