{"id":8216,"date":"2015-11-24T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2015-11-24T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:14:18","slug":"vad-lee-wins-caa-offensive-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8216","title":{"rendered":"Vad Lee Wins 2015 CAA Offensive Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhDeIKMVHac\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nCAA Football announced its <a href=\"http:\/\/caasports.com\/documents\/2015\/11\/23\/\/2015_All_Conference_Team.pdf?id=2665\">award winners and All CAA teams<\/a> today. JMU QB Vad Lee won the Offensive Player of the Year. Fans of other CAA teams (cough, Richmond) might cry foul because Lee missed 3 games due to injury. They might have a point.<\/p>\n<p>With 3 fewer games under his belt, voters were forced to estimate how productive Lee would have been over the final 3 games, and then compare those estimates against the rest of the league&#8217;s full season results. Otherwise, they&#8217;d be forced to simply go off the fact that Lee only had 1 more yard of total offense than his closest competitor. That&#8217;s right, despite missing over a quarter of the season, Lee had more total yards than any other player in the CAA. He averaged 375 yards of total offense per game. That&#8217;s 102 more than anyone else. Game set match. Lee was as deserving as any CAA player in recent memory. His injury also leaves us with one particularly painful &#8220;what if?&#8221; scenario, but that&#8217;s a discussion for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was also recognized as first team All CAA. Joining him on the first team was WR Brandon Ravenel and OL Mitch Kirsch. On the defensive side, DL Andrew Ankrah and CB Taylor Reynolds were selected to the All CAA first team. Cardon Johnson, Deane Cheatham, Alex Mosley (<em>ed. note: Saturday&#8217;s jumbotron video of Mosley stating that the first time he walked into D-Hall was his favorite JMU memory, immediately became one of my favorite JMU memories from the 2015 season<\/em>) and Raven Greene earned second team honors. Punter Gunnar Kane earned a third team nod. All in all, a pretty good haul for the Dukes.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8216&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAA Football announced its award winners and All CAA teams today. JMU QB Vad Lee won the Offensive Player of the Year. Fans of other CAA teams (cough, Richmond) might cry foul because Lee missed 3 games due to injury. They might have a point. With 3 fewer games under his belt, voters were forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7415,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7415","url_meta":{"origin":8216,"position":0},"title":"Vad Lee Wins the Dudley Award","date":"December 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"JMU quarterback Vad Lee was awarded the Dudley Award for 2014 this evening. The award recognizes the best Division 1 (sorry Richmond) college football player in the commonwealth of Virginia and was presented to Lee by the Richmond Touchdown Club and Richmond Times Dispatch. 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