JACKSON, Miss. - Caden Greer can forever remember his inaugural start for the Northeast Mississippi Community College football team as an award-winning performance.
Greer was selected as the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC) Offensive Player of the Week after guiding the Tigers to their first victory of the young season.
"Caden did a wonderful job. We were very pleased with him and his effort," said Northeast head coach Greg Davis. "He conducted the offense very well. He threw some very accurate footballs. The lights just came on and he was a gamer."
Greer led the Tigers to one of their top offensive outputs in modern-day program history. The 49 points that Northeast scored against Southwest Mississippi Community College is tied for fifth most in a single game while its 483 total yards is eighth best on record.
The Kosciusko High School graduate accounted for 231 of those yards with 215 coming through the air. He was 11 of 19 passing with three of his completions going for touchdowns.
Greer connected with five different Tigers. Will Stokes was his top target with four receptions, including a 50-yard catch-and-run early in the fourth quarter that gave Northeast the lead for good.
It was the second big play of the contest for Greer, who also hooked up with JT Beasley in the opening period for a 79-yard touchdown. His other score was a six-yard toss to Cameron Isaiah that finished a seven minute, 36 second drive right before halftime.
Greer engineered another seven-plus minute possession that sealed the win for the Tigers. He had a big fourth down conversion pass to Makyi Reed-Jones before Antonio Kennedy rushed into the end zone four plays later.
"I want to thank God, my coaches and my family for supporting me," Greer said. "I'm just surrounded by great people. We've got some good receivers, running backs and five good o-linemen up front.
"Starting off the game, I was a little nervous, but after the first series I was all right. I was comfortable in the pocket and just delivered the ball where it needed to go."
Greer is the first Northeast quarterback to earn MACCC Player of the Week honors since Kevin Hurley, who is now in his senior year at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), did so during the coronavirus shortened 2020 campaign.