RB CharMar Brown of North Dakota State has swept the Missouri Valley Football Conference Freshman and Newcomer of the Year honors.  He heads a list of 31 student-athletes named to the 2024 Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Newcomer Team.  League coaches, sports information directors and a media panel selected the team.

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A four-time MVFC Newcomer of the Week and Jerry Rice Award finalist, Brown leads all FCS freshmen with 965 rushing yards, fifth most overall in the MVFC.  He had four 100-yard rushing games including a season-high 126 against Towson.  Brown is the sixth MVFC player to earn both Newcomer and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season and the third NDSU player to do so (2012 QB Sawyer Kollmorgen, UNI; 2013 RB Martin Ruiz, YSU; 2017 LB Jabril Cox, NDSU; 2019 QB Trey Lance, NDSU; 20-21 QB Mark Gronowski, SDSU).

 

OFFENSE	Hometown (Previous Schools)
WR Quaron Adams, South Dakota	Phoenix, Ariz. (Chandler High) / Iowa State
WR James BlackStrain, Missouri State	Cocoa, Fla. (Holy Trinity Episcopal Acad.) / Georgia Tech
OL Ben Buxa, North Dakota	Lake Mills, Wis. (Lakeside Lutheran High)
RB CharMar Brown, North Dakota State	Omaha, Neb. (Creighton Prep High)
OL Trent Fraley, North Dakota State	Moon Township, Pa. (Moon Area High) / Marshall
OL JJ Guedet, Illinois State	Washington, Ill. (Washington High) / Minnesota
OL Adrian Hawkins, South Dakota	Baltimore, Md. (DeMatha Catholic High) / Monmouth
WR Keontez Lewis, Southern Illinois	East St. Louis, Ill. (East St. Louis High) / Wisconsin
WR Xavier Loyd, Illinois State	Blue Springs, Mo. (Blue Springs High) / Kansas State
QB Elijah Owens, Indiana State	Jacksonville, Ill. (Jacksonville High)
WR Rashad Rochelle, Indiana State	Springfield, Ill. (Springfield High) / Rutgers
RB Sawyer Seidl, North Dakota	Hugo, Minn. (Hill-Murray High)
TE Davin Stoffel, South Dakota State	Mosinee, Wis. (Mosinee High)
RB Kirby Vorhees, South Dakota State	Lutz, Fla. (Steinbrenner High)
RS Jackson Williams, North Dakota State	Omaha, Neb. (Millard West High)
RB Ethan Wright, Youngstown State	Akron, Ohio (Manchester High) / Cincinnati
DEFENSE	Hometown (Previous Schools)
CB Anthony Chideme-Alfaro, North Dakota St.	Sacramento, Calif. (Jesuit High) / Cornell
DL Kobe Clayborne, South Dakota State	Sioux City, Iowa (Bishop Heelan) / Northwest Missouri St.
S Jaylin Crumby, North Dakota State	Tampa, Fla. (Armwood High)
DB JJ Dervil, Northern Iowa	Naples, Fla. (Lely High) / New Mexico State
LB Nate Ewell, South Dakota	Waterloo, Iowa (West High) / Grand View
P Hayden Futch, Illinois State	Valdosta, Ga. (Berrien High)
DB DJ Harris, Youngstown State	North Canton, Ohio (Jackson High) / Tiffin
DT Bryce Hawthorne, South Dakota State	Osseo, Minn. (Osseo High)
DB Colby Humphrey, South Dakota State	Birmingham, Ala. (Desert Vista High) / Northern Arizona
DB Kaleno Levine, Missouri State	Fort Worth, Texas (V.R. Eaton High) / Tyler (Texas) JC
P Tom O'Hara, Murray State	Melbourne, Australia
DB Mike Reid, South Dakota	Owings Mills, Md. (Owings Mills High) / Monmouth
DB Avery Scott, North Dakota	Newport News, Va. (Woodside High) / West Virginia State
DB Jorge Valdes, Indiana State	Fort Wayne, Ind. (Carroll High)
LB Dallas Winner-Johnson, Missouri State	St. Louis, Mo. (Cardinal Ritter Prep)