KSU’s Waters nabs Big 12 Player of the Week honors

Kansas State Athletics

MANHATTAN, Kan. – After accumulating 377 total yards – including a career-best 138 rushing yards and two touchdowns – in a 32-28 victory at Iowa State, Kansas State senior quarterback Jake Waters earned Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors, the conference office announced Monday.

K-State's Jake Waters scores the game winning touchdown against Iowa State's Nigel Tribune at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa on September 6, 2014. (Scott D. Weaver/K-State Athletics) — K-State’s Jake Waters scores the game winning touchdown against Iowa State’s Nigel Tribune at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa on September 6, 2014. (Scott D. Weaver/K-State Athletics)

The accolade is the first of Waters’ career and the first by a Wildcat offensive player since Collin Klein in 2012.

Waters led K-State to its first double-digit comeback victory on the road since 2010 and the first overall since 2011 as the Wildcats trailed the Cyclones, 28-13, with 1:36 remaining before halftime. The Wildcat signal caller capped a 10-play, 84-yard drive just prior to halftime with a one-yard rushing touchdown to pull the Wildcats within eight at 28-20. After a scoreless third quarter, Waters ran for 59 yards on only seven carries (8.4 yards per rush) in the fourth quarter and guided the Wildcat offense on a pair of touchdown drives, including the final drive that ended with his own game-winning eight-yard touchdown run with one minute, 30 seconds remaining in the contest.

A product of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Waters also threw for 239 yards on 16-of-29 aim, which included a 57-yard pass to Tyler Lockett to set up K-State’s first touchdown of the game and a 23-yarder to Lockett on the game-winning drive.