IRVING,
Texas – In recognition of his outstanding
accomplishments in the classroom and on the playing field,
recent graduate Casey Younger has been inducted
into the second annual class of the National Football Foundation’s
National Honor Society by the president and chief executive
officer Steven J. Hatchell.
For 61 years,
the NFF has honored the best and brightest that intercollegiate
football has to offer. In only its second year, and thanks
to the generosity of The Hampshire Foundation, the NFF
Hampshire Honor Society witnessed an increase of more than 25 percent
from the inaugural class in 2007.
Younger,
a 6-foot-1, 260-pound defensive tackle from Vicksburg, earned
about every possible award over his four-year career for the
Majors and started in all but one game from 2004-07. He totaled
180 tackles, 29 tackles-for-loss, 12.0 sacks, two forced fumbles
and a fumble recovery, leaving him in the Top 20 all-time.
In addition
to becoming the first Millsaps football player ever to garner
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI honors
in 2007, Younger was named Academic All-SCAC, SCAC Co-Defensive
Player of the Year, D3football.com All-South Region First Team,
D3football.com
All-American Honorable Mention, First Team All-SCAC and the
Jackson TD Club's Most Valuable Senior. Younger was
also named First Team All-SCAC, SCAC Player of the Week, D3football.com
National Team of the Week and D3football.com All-South Region
Third Team in 2006.
He joins
former teammate and wide receiver Josh Hanna as the lone two
Millsaps players in the HOF.
