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Jersey Number 7
Julius Chestnut
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bowie, Md.
- High School:
- Archbishop Spaulding
2020-21:
- Finished third in voting for the Walter Payton Award.
- AP and FCS First-Team All-American.
- AFCA First-Team All-American.
- Named to Hero Sports All-America team.
- Earned Athlon First-Team All-America honors.
- Stats Perform First-Team All-American.
- NEC Offensive Player of the Year.
- Led the FCS with 205.2 all-purpose yards per game and a program-record 171.0 yards per game.
- Awarded National Offensive Player of the Week (3/8).
- Tied for first in the nation for most touchdowns (12).
- Earned NEC Offensive Player of the Week three times (3/8, 3/15, & 3/22).
- Tallied 249 total yards with a career-high tying 203 rushing yards against LIU (3/14).
2019:
- Awarded Third-Team All-American by Associated Press and STATS.
- Named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award.
- All-New England Team.
- First-Team All-ECAC.
- First-Team All-NEC.
- Rushed for 1,495 yards: the second-most in the program’s history and third-most in the nation.
- Received NEC Offensive Player of the Week twice (9/9 & 11/4).
- Rushed for over 110 yards in 9 games.
2018:
- NEC Offensive Rookie of the Year
- Four-time NEC Rookie of the Week (11/12, 11/5, 10/29, 9/3)
- STATS FCS - Honorable Mention for National Rookie of the Week (10/29)
- Named one of 20 finalists nationwide for the STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award, which is presented annually to the FCS Freshman of the Year.
- Chestnut becomes the first Pioneer to be selected as the Offensive Rookie of the Year since RJ Noel in 2013
- Produced a huge breakout campaign in 2018, finishing the season with 713 rushing yards and seven touchdowns while playing in all 11 games
- His 68.4 rushing yards per game this season ranks him eighth in the NEC
- Rushed for 57 yards and two touchdowns in his collegiate debut against Lafayette (9/1), a performance that earned him his first of four NEC Rookie of the Week awards
- Chestnut compiled three consecutive weeks of 130+ yard performances, beginning with a season-high 164 yards rushing on 13 carries and three touchdowns against Bryant (10/27)
- He followed that up with a 152-yard rushing performance against Robert Morris and 131 rushing yards at Duquesne on just 10 carrie
- His 13.1 yards per carry against Duquesne (11/10) ranks tied for second in school history for a single game (minimum 10 carries)
- Over that same three-game span, he scored five touchdowns, four of which went for at least 60 yards
High School:
- Highly productive back at Archbishop Spaulding, finishing his high school career with 37 total touchdowns (35 rushing, two receiving)
- Rushed for 817 yards on 133 carries in eight games (6.1 ypc, 102.1 ypg) to go along with 13 touchdowns in his senior season in 2017
- Produced 945 yards on 142 carries in 11 games (6.7 ypc, 85.9 ypg) while rushing for an impressive 21 touchdowns in 2016
Inside the Huddle: Week Eleven
Thursday, November 13
Inside the Huddle: Week Ten
Friday, November 07
Inside the Huddle: Week Seven
Friday, October 10
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