JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Austin Peay’s Denver Harper grabbed his second national award of the season after being named the Stats Perform FCS National Special Teams Player of the Week, it was announced Monday.

Harper, a redshirt freshman, amassed 227 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns in Austin Peay’s 42-17 win over New Haven. The redshirt freshman opened his scoring with a 10-yard receiving touchdown before scoring twice on special teams - one off a punt for an 82-yard scoring return and a kick-six, the first in the program’s history, to become the first Gov with two special teams touchdowns in one game.

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The United Athletic Conference (UAC) was established in 2023 as a single-sport football conference through a partnership between the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) and the former Western Athletic Conference. In July 2026, the ASUN and UAC formed Unisun Sports to further strengthen the conference, which now features eight football-playing member institutions: Abilene Christian University (Abilene, Texas), Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, Tenn.), the University of Central Arkansas (Conway, Ark.), Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, Ky.), the University of North Alabama (Florence, Ala.), Tarleton State University (Stephenville, Texas), the University of West Georgia (Carrollton, Ga.) and the University of West Florida (Pensacola, Fla.).