The most highly-coveted award in football has been given to an Oklahoma player: the Peter Mortell Holder of the Year Award.
Sooners wide receiver Spencer Jones has picked up the honor due to his good work holding down extra points and field goals for kicker Gabe Brkic in the 2020 season.
Congratulations to the 2020 Holder of the Year:
🏆Spence Jones of @OU_Football 🏆
“The confidence he portrays on 4th down or for an extra-point is unparalleled. He had the top laces-out percentage in college football.”
-HOTY committee on @SpenceJones 🏈👈🏻 pic.twitter.com/OE090QOeAT
— HOTY (@MortellAward) January 8, 2021
A redshirt senior out of Nashville, Tennessee, Jones served as the holder for all eleven Oklahoma games in the 2020 season. With Jones holding, Brkic went 49 for 49 this year on extra points and 20 for 26 on field goals.
The award, which was created in 2015, and is named after it’s first winner in Minnesota’s Peter Mortell for his work for the Golden Gophers. With Jones earning the honor, the Sooners become the first program to have won this award twice with Connor McGinnis having received the honor in 2017.
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