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Virginia Tech's Ryan Williams (34) runs past East Carolina's Levin Neal.
Blacksburg, VA -- For the sixth time in this season, the Atlantic Coast Conference named Virginia Tech redshirt freshman running back Ryan Williams its Rookie of the Week. The talented freshman is the first ACC running back to rush for more than 1,100 yards this season.
Cody Grimm, a redshirt senior linebacker for the Hokies, earned the ACC's Defensive Player of the Week award following his dominating performance against the Pirates. Grimm led the team with 12 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and a recovered fumble.
Grimm played like a man possessed en route to his second ACC Defensive Player of the Week award of the season.
On the offensive side of the ball, Williams rushed for 179 yards on 26 carries in the Hokies' 16-3 win over East Carolina.
The freshman from Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, Va., has rushed for 100 or more yards in six games this season, breaking Darren Evans' freshman record of four 100-yard rushing games in a season set just last season.
Williams averages 123 yards rushing per game, has 1,109 rushing yards through nine games this season, and is on pace to rush for more than 1,500 before the end of the regular season.
The Hokies are bowl eligible for the 17th straight year, so Williams will have at least four more games to add to his total. Evans set the ACC and Tech freshman record with 1,265 yards rushing last season.
Williams also tied Evans' record of 11 touchdowns in a season and barring an injury, will likely shatter the old mark set in 2008. The Virginia Tech record for rushing touchdowns in a season is 27 set by Lee Suggs in 2000. Suggs also holds the school record for total TDs in a season with 28, also set in 2000.
Williams and the Hokies (3-2, 6-3) play at Maryland (1-4, 2-7) on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m.
Complete list of weekly ACC awards.
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