Younger Honored by Jackson Touchdown Club as Top Senior

JACKSON – The Jackson Touchdown Club recently announced the Club's 2007 Most Valuable Seniors at the last meeting of the season on Monday, Nov. 26, 2007 at River Hills CC, with Millsaps' senior defensive lineman and SCAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year Casey Younger receiving the award for the Majors.

The club has presented this awards program each year since 1946, the year the organization was founded by the late Dr. Lacey Hughes, a Jackson native who gathered 15 football fans together to celebrate the sport.

Celebrating the program's 62nd anniversary, the Jackson Touchdown Club Most Valuable Senior Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious honors presented by a quarterback or touchdown club in the southeastern United States.

Players chosen by the coaching staffs of participating MS collegiate football programs were as follows:

Antonio Cooper Jr., LB, Alcorn State University
Graylin Allison, WR, Belhaven College
Michael Eubanks, LB, Delta State University
Jimmy Oliver, QB, Jackson State University
Casey Younger, DT, Millsaps College
BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB, Ole Miss
Jake Allen, WR, Mississippi College
Titus Brown, DL, Mississippi State University
Brandon Sumrall, DB, Southern Mississippi

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