Aqeel Glass named Black College Football Player of the Year
Fred Jeter | 7/29/2021, 6 p.m.
Aqeel Glass has won the top individual prize for Black College Football.
The Alabama A&M University quarterback is the 2021 spring recipient of the Deacon Jones Award that goes to the nation’s top HBCU performer.
The award was presented to Glass on June 19 in Atlanta as part of the Black College Football Hall of Fame ceremonies.
A native of St. Louis, Glass led Alabama A&M to a 5-0 record and its first SWAC title in 15 years. In the championship game against University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Glass passed for 271 yards and three touchdowns.
Earlier in the season, he threw for 440 yards and six touch- downs in a victory over Jackson State University.
Glass was listed as a senior this past season but will have another year of college eligibility due to the NCAA’s pandemic rule changes.
Previous Deacon Jones Award winners are North Carolina A&T’s Tarik Cohen in 2016, Bowie State’s Amir Hall in 2017 and 2018, and Tennessee State’s Chris Rowland in 2019.
Deacon Jones played at South Carolina State and Mississippi Valley State universities before embarking on a 14-season Hall of Fame career in the NFL from 1961 to 1974.
