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Games of Nov. 1, 2025
The Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware, is D3football.com's weekly honor roll, in its 27th season of recognizing the top performance at each position from the previous week. Players are nominated by schools.
Offense
QB Kaleb Blaha, Sr., UW-River Falls
Blaha continued his sensational senior season, leading the No. 9-ranked Falcons to a 52-14 win over No. 8 UW-Whitewater, UWRF's first win over the Warhawks since 2001. The dual-threat quarterback completed 30 of 51 passes for 492 yards and five touchdowns while rushing for 63 yards and two more scores, accounting for seven total touchdowns on the afternoon. With his first rushing touchdown on the day, Blaha reached 52 in his career to become the UWRF all-time scoring leader.
OL Charlie Katarincic, Orazio Nastase, Andy Champe, Conor Gaul, Sam Alligood, Carnegie Mellon
The Tartans scored a touchdown on all 10 of their possessions and totaled 664 yards of offense, the second most in program history. Carnegie Mellon finished with 371 yards on the ground, which is the most for the program since 2015. The Cardinal and Gray were also 9-of-13 on third down and 4-of-4 on fourth down in the 70-29 win vs. Dickinson.
RB Geoff Schroeder, Sr., Johns Hopkins
Schroeder helped power Johns Hopkins to a 47-26 win at Muhlenberg in a matchup of ranked teams. He rushed 28 times for a career-high 232 yards and two touchdowns. His touchdowns covered 34 and 22 yards and his 232 yards are the fifth-best total in program history, most by a Blue Jay running back since 2012.
RB Carson Shriver, Jr., Waynesburg
During Saturday's 48-28 win over Bethany, Shriver powered Waynesburg's ground assault with 228 yards on 24 carries (9.5 ypc), which is the second-highest single-game effort in the PAC this season. His day was highlighted by a 64-yard scoring sprint in the third quarter. Shriver added a 13-yard catch, giving him 241 yards on the day.
WR Devin Larry, So., Allegheny
Larry posted career highs in receiving yards (183) and receiving touchdowns (3) in a 57-21 loss at Westminster (Pa.). He had six catches, with included touchdowns of 68 yards, 72 yards, and 12 yards. Two of his three scores came on trick play passes by fellow wide receiver Chris Gisewhite, and his 72-yard reception for a touchdown was his longest of the year.
WR Brite Cannon, So., Westminster (Pa.)
Cannon is one of two sophomore wide receivers who played in Westminster's 57-21 win against Allegheny to make the Team of the Week this week. Cannon had a career-high eight catches for 136 yards and a touchdown in the victory. It was his third game this season with 100-plus receiving yards.
TE Jalen McCullough, So., Maryville
McCullough had an impressive outing for the Scots on Saturday, totaling a career-best 113 yards on six receptions and a touchdown, including a long of 38 yards, in a 42-22 win against Rhodes.
Defense
DE Nathaniel Kadosh-Harris, Jr., Washington & Jefferson
Kadosh-Harris led the team with two sack fumbles, one fumble recovery and seven total tackles. On the Spartans' first drive in the third quarter, Kadosh-Harris came up big by creating a sack fumble recovered by teammate Brock Sherman to set the Presidents' offense up for a seven-play touchdown drive. Kadosh-Harris called the game in the last CWRU drive with under two minutes left to play in the fourth. The junior edge rusher strip sacked the Spartans quarterback and recovered the fumble to seal the victory. He finished with seven tackles, three solo.
DT Michael Kelley, Sr., Lake Forest
Kelley recorded four tackles on the day, three solo, and all three and a half of them being tackles for loss as the Foresters held Lawrence to minus-27 yards rushing and one total first down on the day. The senior team captain also made a guest appearance in the backfield for the Foresters first rushing touchdown of the day, a 1-yard plunge.
DE Anthony Cikauskas, Sr., Monmouth
Cikauskas racked up four and a half tackles for loss, two sacks, seven total tackles, two QB hurries and one pass breakup on Saturday in a 29-0 shutout of Chicago. Cikauskas and the defense held Chicago to seven overall first downs, 5 rushing yards and 84 total yards of offense. Cikauskas broke Monmouth's career sack record with his sack in the first quarter and now has 36 for his career.
LB Gage Timm, Sr., UW-River Falls
Timm led the way for the Falcons' defense with 12 tackles, three tackles for loss, three sacks, and two forced fumbles. UW-River Falls limited UW-Whitewater to 239 yards of total offense and just 46 on the ground in the 52-14 win.
LB Noah Noland, Fr., Simpson
Noland posted 17 tackles, including a career-high 14 solo, and blocked two extra points in the fourth quarter, including the potential game-tying kick with 1:11 left, preserving Simpson's 28-27 victory at Loras and undefeated record on the road. He registered two and a half tackles for loss, a quarterback hurry, and his second sack of the season as part of another all-around performance.
LB DJ Johnson, So., North Park
In the Vikings' 14-10 win over Carthage, Johnson returned an interception 58 yards for a Vikings touchdown near the start of the second quarter that gave North Park a 7-3 lead over the Firebirds. After Johnson's pick-6, the defense only allowed one touchdown the rest of the game as well as their second-lowest opponent point total all season. Johnson ended with five total tackles, two pass breakups, and a quarterback hurry.
LB Jason Weaver, Jr., Macalester
Weaver collected five tackles, all solo, an interception, and a strip-sack in the Scots' 27-6 victory vs. St. Olaf. His forced fumble on a fourth-quarter sack led to a Macalester touchdown, while his toe-tapping interception on the sideline with less than a minute remaining in the game ensured the Scots' defense would not allow a single point.
CB Lamont Austin, So., Westminster (Pa.)
Austin snagged a pair of interceptions in Saturday's 57-21 win over Allegheny... He intercepted Nick Barker on the Gators' first play from scrimmage in the second quarter and again with just over eight minutes left in the third quarter. It was the first two interception game of his career.
S Louie Lindsay, Sr., Wooster
Lindsay had a 73-yard pick-six in a 49-6 rout of Kenyon. Lindsay added three pass breakups and four tackles to his senior day stat line.
S Braydon Felsinger, Jr., Rochester
Felsinger had a monster day on defense for the Yellowjackets as Rochester nearly pulled off a big comeback against Hobart on Saturday. In the 28-21 overtime loss, Felsinger finished with a career-high 14 tackles, including eight solo, and had two turnovers to aid the Yellowjacket comeback. The junior picked off a fourth-down pass and returned it 60 yards into the Hobart red zone and later provided a scoop-and-score fumble return touchdown of 26 yards to put Rochester on the scoreboard.
CB Zelmarious Banks, Fr., Lakeland
Banks intercepted three passes and returned two of them for touchdowns, setting NACC single-game record for interceptions returned for TDs in Muskies' win over Concordia Chicago. His interception returns were of 65 and 100 yards, not including the 8-9 yards deep in the end zone on his 100-yard pick-six. His 175 yards in interception returns are a Division III single-game record, breaking old record of 164 set by Rick Connor of Western Maryland in 1983. He also had two additional pass breakups.
Special teams
K Zach McGowan, Jr., Brockport
McGowan was perfect with his leg for the Golden Eagles in a 51-0 win over Alfred. McGowan not only went 6-for-6 on extra points, but he was 3-for-3 on field goals as well. He was good from 25 yards, 35 yards, and a career-long 41 yards.
P Thomas Goeglein, So., Puget Sound
Goeglein averaged 47.3 yards per punt on four punts. This included an 81-yard punt from the back of the Loggers' end zone that was returned from the 15-yard line, and a 50-yard punt that pinned Pacific at its own 2.
RET BJ Stewart, Sr., Mary Hardin-Baylor
Stewart ran a punt return back 61 yards for a touchdown and took a kickoff back 100 yards for a score in a 62-14 win against East Texas Baptist. Stewart totaled 308 yards in returns on the day, with 208 yards on five punt returns.
ST Aidan Szczodroski, Fr., Westminster (Mo.)
Szczodroski blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown, while adding three tackles tackles on special teams in the Blue Jays win over Greenville.