NEW ORLEANS – James Madison’s Alonza Barnett III, Arkansas State’s Demarcus Hendricks & Arkansas State’s Clune Van Andel reaped Sun Belt football weekly awards after victories that kept their teams in the Credit Union 1 Sun Belt Football Championship Game presented by Visit Pensacola hunt. 
 
Football Offensive Player of the Week
Alonza Barnett III, James Madison 
(RS Jr., QB – Whitsett, N.C.)
 
Dukes redshirt junior quarterback Alonza Barnett III accounted for 362 yards and five touchdowns to lead James Madison to a dominant 52-20 win over Texas State in front of a national television audience on ESPN2 Tuesday night. The Whitsett, N.C., native accumulated 350-or-more yards and five-or-more touchdowns for the second-straight game, doing so in just three quarters of work. Barnett completed 12-of-18 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for a game-high 98 yards and a score. 
 
Football Defensive Player of the Week
Demarcus Hendricks, Arkansas State 
(RS Sr., DL – San Antonio, Texas)
 
Red Wolves redshirt senior defensive lineman Demarcus Hendricks tied career highs with seven tackles and two sacks in a 23-10 victory over Troy. The San Antonio, Texas, product also added his first pass breakup of the season and was credited with a quarterback hurry. Hendricks’ two sacks led an Arkansas State defensive unit that totaled nine on the night—tied for the most by an FBS team this season. The Red Wolves limited Troy to 187 total yards, the fewest conceded by Arkansas State to a Sun Belt opponent since 2006 (FIU, 186). 
 
Football Special Teams Player of the Week
Clune Van Andel, Arkansas State 
(Jr., K – Grand Rapids, Mich.)
 
Red Wolves junior kicker Clune Van Andel repeated as the Sun Belt Football Special Teams Player of the Week after scoring 11 points in Arkansas State’s 23-10 win over Troy. The Grand Rapids, Mich., native converted a career-long 53-yard field goal to go along with makes of 30 and 31 yards. Van Andel was also 2-for-2 on point-after attempts, extending his consecutive extra point streak to 56-staight. His career-long 53-yard field goal was his third kick of 50-or-more yards on the season. 
 
2025 Sun Belt Football Offensive Players of the Week
Week 1 – AJ Swann, App State (RS Jr., QB – White, Ga.)  
Week 2 – Trequan Jones, Old Dominion (Jr., RB – Bartow, Fla.) 
Week 3 – Colton Joseph, Old Dominion (RS So., QB – Newport Beach, Calif.) 
Week 4 – Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, Marshall (RS Jr., QB – Atlanta, Ga.) 
Week 5 – Lunch Winfield, Louisiana (RS So., QB – Lutcher, La.) 
Week 6 – Jaylen Raynor, Arkansas State (Jr., QB – Winston-Salem, N.C.) 
Week 7 – Tucker Kilcrease, Troy (Jr., QB – Brantley, Ala.) 
Week 8 – Alonza Barnett III, James Madison (RS Jr., QB – Whitsett, N.C.) 
Week 9 – Braylon Braxton, Southern Miss (RS Sr., QB – Frisco, Texas)
Week 10 – Alonza Barnett III, James Madison (RS Jr., QB – Whitsett, N.C.) 
 
2025 Sun Belt Football Defensive Players of the Week
Week 1 – D’Arco Perkins-McCallister, ULM (RS Sr., DB – Nashville, Tenn.) 
Week 2 – Luke Hodge, Troy (So., LB – Oneonta, Ala.) 
Week 3 – Ian Foster, Southern Miss (RS So., DB – Brundidge, Ala.) 
Week 4 – Noah Arinze, Coastal Carolina (Sr., DL – St. Louis, Mo.) 
Week 5 – Trent Hendrick, James Madison (Sr., LB – Richmond, Va.)
Week 6 – Devin Lafayette, Troy (Sr., DB – Brunswick, Ga.) 
Week 7 – Boogie Trotter, Marshall (Sr., DB – Nashville, Tenn.) 
Week 8 – Treylin Payne, Texas State (Sr., LB – San Antonio, Texas) 
Week 9 – Tirrell Johnson, South Alabama (RS Jr., LB – Wynne, Ark.) 
Week 10 – Demarcus Hendricks, Arkansas State (RS Sr., DL – San Antonio, Texas)
 
2025 Sun Belt Football Special Teams Players of the Week
Week 1 – Tony Sterner, Louisiana (RS Jr., K – Kingwood, Texas)
Week 2 – Tre’ Brown III, Old Dominion (RS So., WR – Savannah, Ga.) 
Week 3 – Dalen Cobb, Georgia Southern (Sr., WR – Washington, Ga.) 
Week 4 – Evan Crenshaw, Troy (Jr., P – Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 
Week 5 – Curtis Harris-Lopez, James Madison (RS Sr., RS – Nashua, N.H.) 
Week 6 – Dominic De Freitas, App State (Fr., K – Nappanee, Ind.) 
Week 7 – Paddy McAteer, Troy (Jr., K - Mullaghbawn, Ireland) 
Week 8 – Lorcan Quinn, Marshall (Fr., K – Donaghmore, Ireland) 
Week 9 – Clune Van Andel, Arkansas State (Jr., K – Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Week 10 – Clune Van Andel, Arkansas State (Jr., K – Grand Rapids, Mich.)