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Stewart
Finishes Fourth in Buchanan Voting
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[December 14, 2007]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- For the
sixth straight season, Illinois State had a representative among the
top five finishers for the Buck Buchanan Award, an honor presented
to the top defensive player competing in the NCAA Division I
Football Championship Subdivision, as Redbird senior linebacker
Kye Stewart (Nashville, Tenn.; Pearl-Cohn High School) placed
fourth on the 2007 final tally Thursday night.
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Montana defensive end Kroy Biermann won the award, which was
announced at the Sports Network FCS Awards Dinner. Stewart finished
with 102 points among the 105 ballots cast by a panel of sports
information directors and selected media. With his fourth-place
effort, Stewart follows in the footsteps of Cameron Siskowic, who
finished fifth in the voting last season; Brent Hawkins, who was
runner-up in 2005; and Boomer Grigsby, a three-time finalist who was
runner-up in 2003 and finished third in both 2002 and 2004.
Stewart led the Gateway Football Conference in tackles, after
finishing as runner-up in 2006. Stewart, a 2007 Walter Camp Football
Foundation All-American, earned first-team all-league honors for the
second straight year in 2007 and finished with 131 tackles on the
season. He posted double-digit tackle totals in every game but two
and matched his career high with 17 takedowns against Western
Illinois.
The Redbird linebacker was the only Gateway representative to
receive votes.
[Text from file received from Todd Kober,
assistant athletics director, media relations,
Illinois
State University]
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