For the second-straight week, San José State quarterback Chevan Cordeiro was named Mountain West offensive participant of the week.
Cordeiro, a senior switch from Hawaii, ran for 109 yards and threw for 230 yards whereas accounting for 4 touchdowns in SJSU’s 40-7 homecoming win over UNLV on Friday evening. The week earlier than in opposition to Wyoming, he threw for 314 yards and one landing. Cordeiro has thrown 162 passes with out an interception and leads the Mountain West (MW) with 1,308 passing yards.
Cordeiro is the primary SJSU participant to win Mountain West offensive participant of the week honors in back-to-back weeks.
“I feel he continues to make good selections with the soccer,” SJSU coach Brent Brennan mentioned Monday. “When he jumped into our household final winter, he instantly went to work on attending to know individuals and studying the scheme and actually investing in his course of and I feel you’re seeing that play out on gameday.”
The Spartans (4-1 total, 2-0 MW) will look to proceed their sizzling streak and win again the Valley Cup on the street in opposition to Fresno State (1-4, 0-1 MW) on Saturday evening.
SJSU hasn’t received a recreation at Valley Kids’s Stadium since 2016, however the Spartans, identical to Cordeiro, are on a roll.
The Bulldogs additionally could possibly be with out a few of their high gamers, together with quarterback Jake Haener, probably the greatest quarterbacks on the West Coast.
Final yr when the Bulldogs performed in opposition to SJSU on Thanksgiving Day, the Bay Space native handed for 343 yards and 4 touchdowns in a 40-9 win over the Spartans. This time round, Fresno State is driving a four-game shedding streak and there shall be no Haener, a product of Danville’s Monte Vista Excessive. In line with coach Jeff Tedford, Haener, broad receiver Josh Kelly and security Evan Williams aren’t anticipated to be recovered from accidents and certain will miss Saturday’s recreation.
The absence of Haener, who suffered a excessive ankle sprain final month in opposition to USC, has turned a season projected to be probably the greatest in Bulldog historical past to right into a disappointing one.
Backup quarterback Logan Fife will make his third begin of the season. Fife has thrown 4 interceptions and hasn’t thrown a landing since taking on for Haener. Fife shall be going through an SJSU protection that has created a turnover in each recreation and has held opponents to 14 factors per recreation, which if first within the Mountain West and ninth-best within the nation.
“San Jose could be very, very aggressive on protection,” Tedford mentioned. “They’re defensive entrance is large, bodily and quick, so we’re going to have our arms full.”
— Palo Alto Excessive graduate and present Las Vegas Raiders broad receiver Davante Adams may have his Fresno State jersey retired Saturday evening at Valley Kids’s Stadium.