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News November 25, 2010

Burris voted Most Outstanding Player

The Calgary Stampeders are pleased to announce that quarterback Henry Burris has been voted the Canadian Football League’s Most Outstanding Player for the 2010 season. The award was announced Thursday evening during the Gibson’s Finest CFL Player Awards show at the Edmonton Winspear Centre.

It’s the first time Burris, who has been his team’s nominee for the Most Outstanding Player Burris_101125.jpgaward on five occasions and was the CFL’s runner-up for the honour in 2008, has been named the league’s Most Outstanding Player. He beat out East Division nominee and three-time MOP Anthony Calvillo of the Montreal Alouettes in this year’s voting among members of the Football Reporters of Canada and CFL head coaches.

Burris led Stamps to a CFL-best 13-5 record and commanded Calgary’s offence, which ranked first in the CFL in points scored (626), net offence (7,769), touchdowns (63), passing touchdowns (45), first downs (445) and average gain per pass (8.8). The Stamps offence boasted three 1,000-yard receivers and two 500-yard rushers for the first time since the 2000 season.

The Stamps’ all-time leading passer threw for 38 touchdowns to lead all CFL pivots (he averaged a major on 6.8 per cent of his passes, tops in the league) and ranked third in passing yardage (4,945) while averaging a league-high 8.8 yards per attempt. He completed a career-high 66.2 per cent of passes this season (second among CFL pivots with a minimum of 100 completions) and posted the second-best quarterback rating (101.9) in the league. Burris also added 70 carries for 491 yards rushing and three scores.

Burris, a veteran of 12 CFL seasons, has been the Stamps nominee for Most Outstanding Player on four occasions (2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010), has been recognized as a West all-star three times (2005, 2008 and 2010) and this season earned his first CFL all-star selection.

This marks the eighth time — and the first time since Dave Dickenson in 2000 — a Calgary player has been named the league’s MOP. Doug Flutie was a three-time winner from 1992-94 while Dickenson, Willie Burden (1975), Peter Liske (1967) and Lovell Coleman (1964) each won the award once.