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Durden Named HERO Sports FCS Freshman All-American
12/17/2018 12:05:00 PM | Football
Freshman wide receiver collects first All-American honor
MACON, Ga. – Mercer wide receiver David Durden was named to the HERO Sports FCS Freshman All-American Team on Monday after an impressive rookie season for the Bears.
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Durden earned Honorable Mention honors as an all-purpose player. The wide receiver and kick returner made an immediate impact at Mercer and finished his freshman season with 637 all-purpose yards (407 receiving, 221 kick return and 11 passing) and seven total touchdowns.
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The Midville, Ga., native had a break-out month of October, totaling over 400 all-purpose yards and five total touchdowns in a three-game span. Durden's best single-game performance came on the road at Yale on Oct. 13 when he hauled in three passes – including two touchdowns – for 122 yards and added a third touchdown on an 11-yard passing score on a trick play. He followed up the performance the next week against Western Carolina with a school-record 95-yard kick return for a touchdown.
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Durden earned Southern Conference All-Freshman Team honors in November. He finished the 2018 season tied for the team lead in touchdown receptions (five) while ranking third in receptions (18) and receiving yards (407).
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About HERO Sports
HERO Sports is a technology platform creating over a billion pieces of unique sports content every month for youth leagues to professional sports. HERO Sports leverages data, machine learning, and sports expertise to create a wide range of content including previews, recaps, rankings, predictions, match-up analysis, fantasy, and betting insights.
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HERO Sports is both a consumer destination and a content-as-a-service company. Through its content automation platform HERO Sports is able to produce original and compelling content for all sports from pee-wee football to DIII field hockey to professional baseball. HERO Sports works with over 20 data partners to gather real-time stats used to power its automation engine for creating content for herosports.com.
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Follow the Bears
For complete coverage of Mercer Football, please follow the Bears on social media at @MercerFootball (Twitter), /MercerFootball (Facebook) and @MercerFootball (Instagram) or visit the official home of Mercer Athletics at MercerBears.com.
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Durden earned Honorable Mention honors as an all-purpose player. The wide receiver and kick returner made an immediate impact at Mercer and finished his freshman season with 637 all-purpose yards (407 receiving, 221 kick return and 11 passing) and seven total touchdowns.
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The Midville, Ga., native had a break-out month of October, totaling over 400 all-purpose yards and five total touchdowns in a three-game span. Durden's best single-game performance came on the road at Yale on Oct. 13 when he hauled in three passes – including two touchdowns – for 122 yards and added a third touchdown on an 11-yard passing score on a trick play. He followed up the performance the next week against Western Carolina with a school-record 95-yard kick return for a touchdown.
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Durden earned Southern Conference All-Freshman Team honors in November. He finished the 2018 season tied for the team lead in touchdown receptions (five) while ranking third in receptions (18) and receiving yards (407).
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About HERO Sports
HERO Sports is a technology platform creating over a billion pieces of unique sports content every month for youth leagues to professional sports. HERO Sports leverages data, machine learning, and sports expertise to create a wide range of content including previews, recaps, rankings, predictions, match-up analysis, fantasy, and betting insights.
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HERO Sports is both a consumer destination and a content-as-a-service company. Through its content automation platform HERO Sports is able to produce original and compelling content for all sports from pee-wee football to DIII field hockey to professional baseball. HERO Sports works with over 20 data partners to gather real-time stats used to power its automation engine for creating content for herosports.com.
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Follow the Bears
For complete coverage of Mercer Football, please follow the Bears on social media at @MercerFootball (Twitter), /MercerFootball (Facebook) and @MercerFootball (Instagram) or visit the official home of Mercer Athletics at MercerBears.com.
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