Colorado's Paul Richardson earns Pac-12 Football Player of the Week honors

The Pac-12 at the moment announced its Player of the Week awards in football representing the 2013 season's opening week, as Colorado wideout Paul Richardson, Arizona safety Tra’Mayne Bondurant, and California kicker Vincenzo D’Amato all were privileged representing their impressive performances.

Richardson, a junior from Los Angeles, enjoyed a breakthrough game in the same way as catching 10 passes representing 208 yards and two touchdowns in the Buff’s 41-27 season-opening win larger than Colorado State on Sunday.  Two of his receptions went representing 75 yards or more, as well as an 82-yard touchdown reception from Connor timber to candid the game.

It was Richardson’s chief game back in the same way as missing all of the 2012 season rehabbing a knee injury, and next to the very slightest, he demonstrated to facilitate he still has respectable zoom and explosion.  The over-200 yard performance was the single solitary in the populace larger than the weekend and truly the fourth in Colorado history. Richardson promptly owns two of persons four hard work, with his chief approaching not in favor of Cal in 2011 (he usual the train mark of 284 receiving yards in to facilitate game).

Bondurant, a junior from Vallejo, California, led the Wildcat apology in a 35-0 keep off not in favor of Northern Arizona on Friday night. The Arizona safety collected a game-high seven tackles, as well as solitary representing loss, and chosen sour two passes, solitary of which he returned 23 yards representing a touchdown.

D’Amato, a senior from Lake Forest, California, tallied a career-high 18 points in the Bears’ 44-30 loss to Northwestern on Saturday night.

D'Amato's for the most part impressive highlight was his 10-yard touchdown pass to holder Jackson Bouza on a fake take goal attempt on Cal’s chief drive. The senior furthermore converted three take goals in his chief three attempts to draw a career-high, and made all three of his extra-point attempts.

Some of the other nominees built-in quarterback Brett Hundley of UCLA; running backs Tre drive you mad of USC and Bishop Sankey of Washington; linebackers Addison Gillam of Colorado and Eric Kendricks of UCLA; and defensive top Nate Orchard of Utah.

By Staff of The Daily Sports Herald and news services