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LAS VEGAS (AFLWA) – In the pass-happy Arena Football League,
which is in its 20th season, amazingly no quarterback had thrown for 400
yards in consecutive games until Tampa Bay's Shane Stafford on
Saturday.
He passed for 424 yards and seven touchdowns to lead the Storm to a
58-48 victory over the Austin Wranglers, earning the Arena Football
League Writers Association (AFLWA) Player of the Week honor.
Stafford completed 26 of 41 passes in handing the Wranglers their
first loss.
"It's pretty cool, but it's only one win," Stafford told the St.
Petersburg (Fla.) Times. "It's not like 400 yards equals four wins. I
wish it did because we'd be 8-2 now."
In his previous outing, Stafford passed for a club-record 458 yards
in a 67-64 overtime loss to the Orlando Predators.
The AFLWA, founded at the start of the 2004 season, is a national organization
made up of media members who cover the Arena Football League. Mark Anderson
of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is the AFLWA's founder and executive director.
| 2006 AFLWA Players of the Week: |
• Week 1:
Damien Harrell, Colorado OS
• Week 2: Damon Mason, Austin DS
• Week 3: Aaron Garcia, New York QB
• Week 4: Timon Marshall, Grand Rapids
WR/DB
• Week 5: Shane Stafford, Tampa Bay
QB
• Week 6: Bobby Sippio, Tampa Bay
WR/DB
• Week 7: Darrell Jones, Arizona WR/DB
• Week 8: Clint Dolezel, Dallas QB |
• Week 9:
Chris Jackson, Georgia OS
• Week 10: John Dutton, Colorado QB
• Week 11: Sherdrick Bonner, Arizona
QB
• Week 12: Damien Harrell, Colorado
OS
• Week 13: Bobby Sippio, Chicago OS
• Week 14: John Dutton, Colorado QB
• Week 15: Bobby Sippio, Chicago OS
• Week 16: Mark Grieb, San Jose QB |
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