Wagner College Athletics

Cam Gill put the finishing touches on his outstanding 2018 season in November by being named the NEC Defensive Player of the Year in a vote of the league's head coaches, becoming the first Seahawk to win this award since 1996. The 6-3, 230-pound Georgia native received this coveted honor in the same week he picked up his third NEC Defensive Player of the Week award for his efforts in a 41-7 win at Robert Morris on November 17. In this contest, Gill came within one half-tackle of matching the DI FCS single-game season high in tackles for loss. The Buck Buchanan Award hopeful totaled 11 tackles in the road win, highlighted by 5.5 stops that dropped the opponent for a loss of yardage. Gill, who was also credited with a quarterback hurry vs. RMU, recorded 2.5 sacks and a takeaway en route to moving into fifth place on the NEC's all-time list of single-season tackles-for-loss leaders (24.5). Earlier in the month, Gill recorded a seven-tackle game, which included 2.5 tackles for loss, vs. eventual NEC champion Duquesne (11/3), as well as a four-tackle, one tackle for loss, effort in a 56-38 victory at Bryant (11/10).