University of Delaware Athletics
Kedrick Whitehead Selected to Buck Buchanan Award Watch List
8/4/2022 12:00:00 PM | Football
NEWARK, Del. – University of Delaware football safety Kedrick Whitehead has been named to the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List, the award given to the best defensive player in FCS at the end of the season. Whitehead was one of 35 players, including four from the CAA, to be on the original watch list.
It is another preseason accolade for Whitehead, who was one of UD's league-high five players named to the All-CAA Preseason Team last week. He was also named an FCS Preseason All-American by both Stats Perform (First Team) and Athlon Sports.
The Middletown, Del. native is coming off a 2021 season in which he earned an All-CAA First Team selection as well as Stats Perform FCS Third Team All-America honors. Whitehead ranked second on the defense last fall with 76 total tackles and was a force in the UD secondary, breaking up eight passes and creating a turnover at Rhode Island. Whitehead finished with 1.5 TFL and had three games with at least 10 tackles, including a career-high 15 against James Madison.
He earned All-America honors for the third-straight season after being named a Stats Perform, Associated Press and Athlon Sports First Team All-American following the 2020-21 spring campaign and a HERO Sports Sophomore All-American in 2019.
Whitehead becomes the first Blue Hen to be considered for the Buck Buchanan Award since Troy Reeder and Nasir Adderly, now teammates on the Los Angeles Chargers, were both finalists for the award in 2018.
The Blue & Gold, which is ranked No. 15 in the HERO Sports Preseason FCS Poll and No. 20 in the 2022 Athlon Sports FCS Preseason Top 25, will open the 2022 season and the Ryan Carty era on Saturday, September 3 at Navy. The Blue Hens will play the first of six home games the following weekend when they host Delaware State to renew the Route 1 Rivalry on September 10. Kickoff at Delaware Stadium is set for 6 p.m.
Single-game tickets, as well as partial plans and individual game parking, for all six of Delaware's home games are currently on sale.
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