For the second time in 2024, Indiana senior quarterback Kurtis Rourke has earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week after leading the Hoosiers to a conference road victory. He shares the Week 6 honor with Ohio State’s Emeka Egbuka.
Rourke posted the ninth-most passing yards by a Hoosier against a Big Ten opponent when he completed 25-of-33 passes for 380 yards and three touchdowns. He connected with eight different receivers in the game and found three different pass catchers for touchdowns.
Rourke also won the weekly honor after leading IU to a road win at UCLA.
Overall, his 380 yards rank No. 14 on the single-game passing charts at IU and finished tops in the Big Ten for Week 6. He was the highest-rated starting quarterback in the Big Ten per Pro Football Focus and the only 300-yard passer in the Power 4 to throw multiple touchdown passes and zero interceptions during the sixth week of the season.
The Oakville, Ontario native, is the first Indiana signal caller with at least three touchdown passes in each of his first three Big Ten contests since 1967. He currently leads the Big Ten in touchdown passes (14), passing yards (1,752), yards per attempts (10.9) and passer rating (192.1).
He is the first Indiana player to earn multiple Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors since 2020 when Ty Fryfogle (Week 4 & 5) claimed the award in back-to-back weeks. The last quarterback to earn multiple Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors was Nate Sudfeld in Weeks 12 and 13 of the 2015 season.
Highlights of Rourke’s week six performance are below.
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