Kurtis Rourke Named to Davey O'Brien Award Great 8 After Record Setting Performance
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Davey O’Brien Award Release
FORT WORTH, Texas (Dec. 2, 2024) — Due to the large number of worthy performances during the final week of the regular season, the Davey O’Brien Foundation has announced that the final Davey O’Brien Great 8 of 2024 has been upgraded to the second “Davey Double” of the year.
The 16 quarterbacks on this week’s Great 8 Davey Double list are Micah Alejado of Hawaii, Georgia’s Carson Beck, Bryson Daily of Army West Point, San Jose State’s Walker Eget, Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi of Colorado State, Old Dominion’s Quinn Henicle, Nico Iamaleava of Tennessee, Georgia Tech’s Haynes King, Kyle McCord of Syracuse, Ohio’s Parker Navarro, Sawyer Robertson of Baylor, Indiana’s Kurtis Rourke, Shedeur Sanders of Colorado, Florida Atlantic’s Tyriq Starks, E.J. Warner of Rice and Navy’s Braxton Woodson.
Seven of the players are being honored for the first time this season, meaning that 74 different quarterbacks earned Great 8 accolades during the 2024 campaign.
The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback of the Week, selected from the Great 8 Davey Double list, will be revealed Tuesday at 11 a.m. (CT).
The Davey O’Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award, the oldest and most prestigious college quarterback award, was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O’Brien Foundation has given away more than $1.3 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.
In 1938, O’Brien, who wore No. 8 as a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
Kurtis Rourke, Indiana, Sr., 6-5, 223, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Tied a school record with six touchdown passes and was 23-for-31 for 349 yards in a 66-0 blanking of instate rival Purdue.