Southeast Polk’s Abu Sama named All-Iowa Football Player of the Year
After helping lead SEP to its second straight Class 5A title, Abu Sama is the Register's All-Iowa HS football player of the year
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This past season, Sama was miles better [than last year], rushing for 1,408 yards and 28 touchdowns on, again, 144 carries [the same number of carries as last year]. He recorded the same amount of rushing attempts, yet rushed for 477 more yards and scored 16 more touchdowns.
Add in his nine receptions for 144 receiving yards and he's up to 1,552 total offensive yards on 153 touches, which is 10.1 yards — a first down, basically — every time he touched the football. Even more, 14 of his 29 total touchdowns spanned 20 yards or more, and nine went 40 yards or more.
Sama capped his spectacular senior season with a record-shattering performance, a 372-yard, six-touchdown performance in the Rams’ 49-14 win over West Des Moines Valley in the Class 5A state championship game.
The 372 rushing yards and six touchdowns are both state title game records. The 372 rushing yards broke a 31-year-old record previously held by West Branch's Kevin Braddock, who rushed for 311 in the 1991 Class 1A state final. The six touchdowns broke the previous record of five, which was held by eight different players.
(But they forgot to mention he’s going to Iowa State. Here’s the writer’s Twitter handle, in case anyone wants to remind him😆: https://twitter.com/codygoodwin)
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Southeast Polk RB Abu Sama rushes for 372 yards, 6 TDs in the Class 5A state title game
Southeast Polk running back Abu Sama set state championship game records with 372 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns in the Class 5A state title game.
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