2014 Buck Buchanan Award Voting 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total 1. Kyle Emanuel , North Dakota State 70 18 18 8 3 495 2. Don Cherry, Villanova 13 23 17 17 11 253 3. Zack Wagenmann, Montana 12 17 14 10 13 203 4. Quinn Backus, Coastal Carolina 9 18 10 12 11 182 5. Donald Payne, Stetson 11 12 11 14 13 177 6. Nick Dzubnar, Cal Poly 10 13 13 7 16 171 7. Jacob Hagen, Liberty 2 15 13 11 11 142 8. Javon Hargrave, South Carolina State 8 5 9 10 7 114 9. Connor Underwood, Indiana State 1 6 11 14 7 97 10. James Cowser, Southern Utah 2 7 8 8 15 93 11. Alec May, Georgetown 3 4 10 11 7 90 12. Davis Tull, Chattanooga 3 7 6 7 9 84 13. Xavier Williams, Northern Iowa 3 1 3 6 7 47 14. Jonathan Woodard, Central Arkansas 2 2 4 2 3 37 15. Caleb Schaffitzel, Missouri State 3 0 1 7 2 34 16. Tony Bell, UT Martin 2 3 2 1 3 33 17. Lynden Trail, Norfolk State 2 3 1 1 2 29 18. Zack Hodges, Harvard 1 1 1 4 2 22 19T. Jeff Covitz, Bryant 1 1 0 3 3 18 19T. Christian Ricard, Stony Brook 0 1 2 2 4 18 21. Ryan Delaire, Towson 1 0 2 2 1 16 22. Isiah Corbett, SE Louisiana 0 2 1 0 3 14 23. Jaquiski Tartt, Samford 0 1 1 2 2 13 24T. O.J. Mau, Gardner-Webb 1 0 1 0 1 9 24T. Colten Heagle , North Dakota State 0 0 1 1 4 9

PHILADELPHIA – North Dakota State defensive endwas named the 2014 Buck Buchanan Award winner as the top defensive player in the Football Championship Subdivision. He will accept the award Monday, Dec. 15, at The Sports Network's FCS awards banquet.Emanuel received 70 of the 160 first-place votes and 495 points from a national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries. Villanova junior linebacker Don Cherry had 13 first-place votes and finished second with 253 points, and Montana defensive end Zack Wagenmann was third among 25 finalists.Emanuel was one of only two players in the FCS to be named The Sports Network's national defensive player of the week twice, and he went on to collect the Missouri Valley Football Conference's defensive player of the year award. He is NDSU's first Buchanan winner and the second from the MVFC.Emanuel leads the FCS in tackles for loss (28.5) and is second in sacks (17.0). In eight games against Top 25 opponents, he has 47 tackles, 16.5 tackles for loss, 10.0 sacks and nine quarterback hurries. He ranks ninth in FCS history and fourth in Valley Football history with 33.0 career sacks, and is three sacks from tying the NDSU career record established in 1974 and 1990.A first-place vote was worth five points, a second-place vote four points, a third-place vote three points, a fourth-place vote two points and a fifth-place vote one point.