adidas? OVC Football Players of the Week ? Oct. 23 10/23/2011 6:04:00 PM OFFENSIVEMatt Denham, RB • Jr., 5-11, 181 • Rineyville, Ky. • Eastern KentuckyDenham carried the ball a season-high 35 times for a career-high 226 yards in Eastern Kentucky's 33-22 victory over Tennessee State on Saturday. Denham scored two touchdowns, the first to put his team up eight points in the third quarter and the final coming on a 29-yard run with 4:53 to play in the game, which gave EKU a two-score lead. Denham now leads the OVC in multi-rushing touchdown games in 2011 (3). The junior averaged 6.5 yards/carry in the game and reached the 200-yard plateau for the second time in the past three weeks, making him one of only three running backs at the FCS level to have multiple 200-yard games this season. The 226 rushing yards is the fifth-highest single-game total in the FCS this season. Over the past three weeks (all Colonel victories) Denham has 584 rushing yards and six touchdowns.Others Nominated: Ryan White, Austin Peay; Jimmy Garoppolo, Eastern Illinois; Washaun Ealey, Jacksonville State; Calvin McNairl, Tennessee State; Quentin Sims, UT Martin. DEFENSIVEMontori Hughes, NG • Jr., 6-5, 305 • Murfreesboro, Tenn. • UT MartinHughes, the transfer from the University of Tennessee, had 10 tackles (4 solo), a sack, 5.5 tackles-for-loss, a quarterback hurry and forced and recovered a fumble in UT Martin's 24-23 road victory over Eastern Illinois on Saturday. The 5.5 tackles-for-loss is the most by a player in the OVC this season. Hughes' forced fumble and recovery came in the second quarter with EIU at the UTM 30-yard line; six plays after the recovery the Skyhawks scored a touchdown to take a 10-7 lead. Hughes' play helped the UT Martin defense limit Eastern Illinois to -5 rushing yards on the day, as the Skyhawks recorded 14 tackles-for-loss in the win.Others Nominated: Justin Bell, Eastern Kentucky; Pierre Warren, Jacksonville State; Tim Hamm-Bey, Southeast Missouri; Daniel Fitzpatrick, Tennessee State.SPECIALISTGabriel Chambers, RS • Fr., 5-10, 157 • Centre, Ala. • Jacksonville StateChambers returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown in Jacksonville State's loss at Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) foe Kentucky on Saturday. The return is tied for the fourth-longest kickoff return in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) this season and the fourth-longest in Jax State history. It came against a Kentucky team that was allowing just 22 yards/return and who had not allowed a kickoff touchdown on the season. Chambers currently ranks sixth nationally in kickoff return yards (29.92/return). It marked the sixth kickoff return for a touchdown by an OVC specialist during the season.Others Nominated: Joe Vucic, Southeast Missouri; Matt Moseley, Tennessee State; Cody Sandlin, UT Martin.NEWCOMERTim Hamm-Bey, CB • Fr., 5-9, 165 • St. Louis, Mo. • Southeast MissouriThe true freshman had two interceptions in Southeast Missouri's 17-13 Homecoming victory over Austin Peay on Saturday. The two interceptions doubled Southeast Missouri's total through the first six games of the season. Hamm-Bey's first interception game on APSU's first drive of the third quarter, as he picked off Jake Ryan and returned it 36 yards to the Governors 36-yard line; one play later Southeast Missouri scored to pull ahead 14-10 and would never trail again. His second pick came midway through the fourth quarter when he stopped a Governors drive deep in Redhawk territory, and returned the pick 26 yards to midfield. Hamm-Bey also added a pass break-up during the game.Others Nominated: DJ Bland, Eastern Illinois; Washaun Ealey, Jacksonville State; Matt Moseley, Tennessee State; Montori Hughes, UT Martin.