Indiana senior quarterback Kurtis Rourke recently earned his third Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week award and the Davey O'Brien Great 8, which makes him eligible for the national quarterback of the week honor.
The Davey O’Brien Foundation has announced that the final Davey O’Brien Great 8 of 2024 has been upgraded to the second “Davey Double” of the year.
The 16 quarterbacks on this week’s Great 8 Davey Double list are Micah Alejado of Hawaii, Georgia’s Carson Beck, Bryson Daily of Army West Point, San Jose State’s Walker Eget, Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi of Colorado State, Old Dominion’s Quinn Henicle, Nico Iamaleava of Tennessee, Georgia Tech’s Haynes King, Kyle McCord of Syracuse, Ohio’s Parker Navarro, Sawyer Robertson of Baylor, Shedeur Sanders of Colorado, Florida Atlantic’s Tyriq Starks, E.J. Warner of Rice, Navy’s Braxton Woodson and Indiana's Kurtis Rourke.
The former Ohio Bobcats transfer made the most of his graduate and lone regular season with Indiana. Rourke completed 70.4 percent of his passes for 2,827 yards, 27 touchdowns, and four interceptions over 11 starts this season, going 10-1. He is coming off his best performance of his career as he threw a record six touchdown passes in a 66-0 win over the Purdue Boilermakers.
Indiana finished tied for second in the Big Ten with an 8-1 record, but lost a tiebreaker to Penn State, who will play Oregon for the B1G championship next Saturday in Indiana.
IU is ranked No. 9 in the official College Football Playoff Rankings that were released tonight on ESPN.
Way to bounce back, Kurtis Rourke (@Kurtis_rourke7) 🍁
— Alex McComb (@alexmmccomb) December 2, 2024
The Oakville man finished No. 10 Indiana's season w/ the best passer rating (181.4) in college football.
Saturday vs Purdue:
🎯 23/31
🎯 6 TDs (tied Indiana single-game record)
🎯 349 yds
🎯 0 INTspic.twitter.com/ry2EHWTKDk