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UNLV officially opens the race for the 2016 Piesman Trophy

Watch a freshman defensive lineman rumble into the race for college football’s tastiest trophy

NCAA Football: Jackson State at UNLV
NCAA Football: Jackson State at UNLV
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Good morning. The Piesman race for the 2016 season has officially begun with this, the first entry on our ballot.

That’s redshirt freshman Nick Dehdashtian scooping and scoring for the Rebels, which means (pulls out calculator) (presses buttons) (furrows brow) yeah, he’s on track to have one Piesman-worthy play in every game of his college career. Guessing that would be some kind of record, though we have to let the research team dig into that a little more.

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