The SEC is out with individual awards as voted on by the league’s coaches.

Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker was named SEC Offensive Player of the Year, while Alabama’s Will Anderson Jr., was named Defensive Player of the Year for the second year in a row.

Georgia placekicker Jack Podlesny was voted Special Teams Player of the Year, Ole Miss’ Quinshon Judkins was voted SEC Freshman of the Year and Arkansas’ Ricky Stromberg was named winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy. Georgia coach Kirby Smart was named SEC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.

Smart is the first coach since Nick Saban in 2008-09 to be named SEC Coach of the Year in consecutive seasons. Georgia will face Ohio State in the CFP semifinals on Dec. 31.

Mississippi State’s Austin Williams was recognized as the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year last week prior to the SEC Championship Game.

Hooker engineered the best offense in the SEC this season that also led the country in scoring at 47.3 points per game. Hooker, before he suffered a torn ACL against South Carolina, threw for 3,135 yards and 27 touchdowns to go along with 430 rushing yards and 5 rushing touchdowns.

Anderson ranks sixth nationally in sacks and seventh in tackles for loss as he led the SEC in both categories. He made 51 tackles along with 17 for loss and 10 sacks. Anderson is the first player to be named SEC Defensive Player of the Year 2 consecutive seasons since the award’s inception in 2003.

Podlesny leads the SEC in field goal percentage at 88.5. He has connected on 23 of 26 attempts, and 73 of his 91 kickoffs have resulted in either touchback or a fair catch. He was twice named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week during the regular season.

Judkins set the Ole Miss single season records in rushing yards (1,746) and rushing touchdowns (16). He is ranked third all-time in rushing yards by an SEC freshman, and Judkins was named SEC Freshman of the Week 5 times this season.

At Arkansas, Stromberg helped the Razorbacks rank second in the SEC with an average of 223.4 rushing yards per game.

Williams posted a 4.0 cumulative GPA during his time at Mississippi State. He is currently working on his third degree. He was previously selected as a member of the 2022 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class and is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which is college football’s premier scholar-athlete award.