BATON ROUGE – Senior linebacker Duke Riley was given the Charles McClendon Award as LSU’s Most Valuable Player and junior fullback J.D. Moore claimed the Charles E. Coates Award as the team’s top student-athlete as the Tigers held their annual football banquet here Sunday night at the Raising Cane’s RiverCenter.
Riley, from New Orleans, ranked second on the team with 85 as he helped a Tiger defense rank among the top three in the SEC in several categories, including scoring defense (16.4), total defense (323.0) and rushing defense (121.8).
Moore, a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-District team, has a 3.