MILWAUKEE, Wis. (naccsports.org) --- Three Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) football student-athletes have landed on the D3football.com Team of the Week for games played Oct. 23-24, 2026.

Benedictine University sophomore cornerback Azaan Tabari, Rockford University junior linebacker Matthew Hill, and St. Norbert College junior safety Jim Feeney were recognized by the online publication.

The Team of the Week is D3football.com's weekly honor roll, in its 28th season of recognizing the top performance at each position from the previous week. Players are nominated by schools.

Games of Oct. 23-24, 2026
OFFENSE
QB Sam Simril, Sr., Lewis & Clark
Simril threw for a career-high 437 yards and recorded five touchdown passes, all in the final 20 minutes of regulation and overtime to lead Lewis & Clark to a 43-41 triple-overtime win over Whitworth. With the River Otters trailing 28-7, Simril threw touchdown passes on the team's final four drives and their second drive of overtime, completing 34 of 51 passes on the day. He also connected with junior tight end Dante Washington for the game-winning, two-point conversion in triple overtime. The win marked Lewis & Clark's first win at the Pine Bowl since 1996.

OL Jaden Hines, Kayden Cephas, Ike Sholders, Kameron Chavers, Ragland Powell, Stevenson
Following a dominant performance in the Mustangs' 34-7 win vs. Albright. The offensive line paved the way for 338 rushing yards on 36 carries, averaging an impressive 9.4 yards per attempt while helping the Mustangs score three rushing touchdowns. Stevenson totaled 497 yards of offense, averaging 8.4 yards per play, and recorded 22 first downs, including 14 on the ground.

RB Jayden Stanfield, Jr., Lebanon Valley
Stanfield tied an LVC record with five touchdowns on Saturday in a 45-2 victory over Widener. He ran for a career-high 206 yards and tied the school record with four rushing touchdowns while adding three receptions for 26 yards and a receiving touchdown to lead the Dutchmen to their first win of the season. Stanfield scored LVC's first 35 points as he recorded touchdown runs of 1 yard and 2 yards in the first quarter, a 6-yard touchdown run and a 17-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter, and then finished things off with a big 44-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter. The junior averaged 9.0 yards per carry.

RB Martez Stephenson, Fr., Westminster (Mo.)
Stephenson broke the 200-yard rushing barrier for the third time this season and the third time in his young career, as he needed just 14 carries to roll up 241 yards in a 55-34 win vs. Minnesota-Morris. His touchdown runs were 24, 57 and 46 yards in length.

WR Jalen Lackey, Jr., Southern Virginia
Lackey had 11 catches for 215 yards and two touchdowns for Southern Virginia, as the Knights scored 15 points in the fourth quarter to rally and get past Belhaven, 23-19. Lackey's second touchdown was the game-winner, a 37-yard TD catch with 40 seconds to play. It's his second consecutive game of 200-plus yards receiving.

WR Zach Pillow, So., Trine
Pillow broke the program record for most receptions in a game (17), and tied record for receiving touchdowns in a game with four in a 45-42 win at Adrian. Caught the game winning touchdown with just nine seconds left to secure the Border Brawl rivalry trophy. Pillow finished with 180 yards receiving on the day.

TE Julius Walker, Sr., Lewis & Clark
Walker posted career-highs with eight catches for 140 yards and matched his career-high with two touchdown catches in Lewis & Clark's 43-41 triple-overtime win at Whitworth. The senior tight end posted both of his touchdown catches in the second half as Lewis & Clark rallied from a 28-7 deficit to earn their first win over Whitworth since 2011. He recorded touchdown catches of 19 yards and 10 yards.

DEFENSE
DE Levi Bolstad, Jr., UW-River Falls
Bolstad delivered a record-tying performance in UW-River Falls' 59-22 victory over UW-Eau Claire, recording six tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and four sacks. He tied the UWRF and WIAC single-game records for sacks, accounting for four of the Falcons' five sacks while helping limit the Blugolds to 89 rushing yards. Bolstad totaled 16 yards in tackles for loss.

DT David Borchers, Jr., Wartburg
Borchers had two tackles, two tackles for loss, one for a safety, and a pass breakup. He played a key role in helping the Wartburg defense hold Dubuque to 12 offensive points after the Spartans had scored 100 points over their previous two games.

DT Tayte Lecy, Sr., Concordia-Moorhead
Lecy collected three sacks on three consecutive plays in the fourth quarter of the Cobbers' victory over Augsburg. He finished the game with six total tackles, four tackles for loss, and a pass breakup, in addition to the three sacks.

DE Trinity Hill-Caleb, So., Lycoming
Posted five tackles in a superb Lycoming defensive effort against Western Connecticut in a 48-7 win, with all five tackles being for loss and three of them sacks. He also forced two fumbles, with one setting up Lycoming's go-ahead score in the first quarter. The Lyco defense held WestConn to 177 yards, 18 on the ground, after they entered the game averaging 382.2 yards.

LB Ethan Cenesca, Jr., New England College
Cenesca made nine total tackles including seven solo stops and two tackles-for-loss, had two interceptions, and ran in a 5-yard rushing touchdown to boot in a 17-14 win vs. Maine Maritime. He intercepted a pass on the very first play from scrimmage, later leading to his rushing touchdown, and later picked off MMA's final pass of the game as he single-handedly secured the win. 

LB Matthew Hill, Jr., Rockford
Hill lived in the Wisconsin Lutheran backfield with nine solo tackles, a staggering six tackles for loss (minus-37 yards), and five sacks (minus-35 yards). Hill also turned in a record-setting performance, recording five sacks to establish a new Rockford single-game record, one of which was a strip sack which resulted in a touchdown to force overtime in a 13-7 loss.

LB Brayden Baker, Jr., Franklin
Baker made a game-high 12 tackles, including nine solos and one and a half tackles for loss, while also forcing a fumble, intercepting one pass and breaking up another as Franklin allowed just one scoring drive during his three quarters of play in a 41-14 win vs. Bluffton.

CB Azaan Tabari, So., Benedictine
Tabari recorded a pair of interceptions in Benedictine's 40-20 win over Concordia Chicago. He also picked off a pass on a two-point attempt and ran it back 100 yards for the score, a pick-two, as it were.

S Hank Phenicie, Fr., Chicago
Phenicie was excellent in the secondary for the Maroons as they held Monmouth to 12-for-27 passing for 160 yards. The freshman made seven total tackles, six of which were solo, and he added a tackle for loss and three pass breakups in the 23-17 loss. The 23 points scored by Monmouth are also their fewest in any Midwest Conference game since 2023.

S Jim Feeney, Jr., St. Norbert
Tied in a 3-3 game with Aurora with less than a minute to play, Feeney nabbed a crucial interception and returned a 50-yard pick six for the game-winning score in St. Norbert's 10-3 win over the Spartans. He also had seven tackles with half a tackle for loss.

CB Micah Harshfield, Jr., St. John Fisher
Harshfield made seven tackles, including six solo stops, and returned an interception 42 yards for a touchdown as St. John Fisher took No. 12 SUNY Cortland down to the wire in 28-20 road loss on Saturday. Harshfield recorded Fisher's first pick-six since 2024 and became the first Cardinal since 2022 to record interceptions in consecutive games. His third-quarter touchdown pulled the Cardinals within seven, 21-14.

SPECIAL TEAMS
K Nathan Napier, So., WPI
Napier delivered a career performance in WPI’s 36-12 NEWMAC victory over SUNY-Maritime, connecting on all four field goal attempts, from 20, 53, 55 and 44 yards. He established a WPI career long with a 53-yard field goal as time expired in the first half, then broke his own record with a 55-yarder in the fourth quarter. Napier added a pair of PATs to account for 14 points and dropped a punt inside the Maritime 20 in the win. Napier is 12-for-13 on the season as the Engineers improve to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in NEWMAC play.

P Kyle Norris, Sr., Belhaven
Norris punted five times for a 54.6-yard average for Belhaven in a 23-19 loss to Southern Virginia, but had the placement as well as the raw power. Four of his five punts were over 50 yards, including a 63-yarder. Four of the five were downed inside the 20, three inside the 10, and two on the 1-yard line.

RET Ian Gebhardt, Fr., Nebraska Wesleyan
Gebhardt returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown in Nebraska Wesleyan’s 69-48 win over Loras, becoming the first Prairie Wolf to return a punt for a touchdown since 2019. It is the longest punt return in the American Rivers Conference this season and the longest in the conference since 2021. In addition to the return touchdown, Gebhardt also threw a TD pass and caught a TD pass in the win.

ST Bryce Reese, Sr., Illinois Wesleyan
Illinois Wesleyan nearly saw a shutout wiped off the board in the second half, but Reese came up with a huge tackle on a kickoff to keep the Bluejays at bay. With Elmhurst’s Deontae Dixon II speeding down the IWU sideline, Reese used his speed to close on the Bluejay returner and made a tackle from behind. The Elmhurst drive then resulted in a turnover on downs as IWU grabbed a 44-0 victory.