Arizona’s Jake Glatting named nation’s Holder of the Week

Arizona Wildcats redshirt senior Jake Glatting earned the Mortell Award in Week 4, honoring the nation’s best holder of the week, it was announced Wednesday.

Glatting was 5-for-5 on holds and, of course, had an eight-yard first-down run on a fake field goal in the second quarter of Arizona’s win at Oregon State.

“If you watch the film from either end zone, there’s a huge gap,” Glatting said. “A few years ago with that quarterback instinct still at its peak in high school, I might have seen that hole a little sooner. But I’m not quite as fast as I used to be and don’t have that intuition like I used to. I got enough for the first down. That was really my goal.”

The Mortell Award is semi tongue-in-cheek. It was created in 2015 by Peter Mortell, a former punter and holder at Minnesota.

The annual winner of the Mortell Award gets a foundation set up to raise money for a charity of the winner’s choosing. Garrett Moores (Michigan) and Connor McGinnis (Oklahoma) are the other two winners along with Mortell himself.