There are both familiar faces and newcomers on the list of Calgary Stampeders nominees for the 2014 Canadian Football League player awards.

League rushing leader Jon Cornish is Calgary’s nominee for both the Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian. Cornish is the CFL’s reigning MOP and he has been named the league’s top Canadian in each of the past two seasons.

Meanwhile, 2013 CFL rookie of the year Brett Jones is the Stamps’ nominee for the 2014 Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman award.

The other three Calgary selections are all first-time nominees. They are defensive lineman Shawn Lemon (Most Outstanding Defensive Player), punter Rob Maver (Most Outstanding Special Teams Player) and kick returner/receiver Sederrik Cunningham (Most Outstanding Rookie).

Calgary’s nominees were determined by voting members of the Football Reporters of Canada (FRC) as well as one vote from the Stampeders coaching staff.

Here is a closer look at the Stampeders’ nominees:

Jon Cornish (Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian): Despite playing just nine games, Cornish is in line to win a third consecutive league rushing title. He has 1,082 yards on 139 rushes, an average of 7.8 yards per carry. Cornish has cracked the 100-yard mark in six of his nine games and has surpassed the 150-yard mark on four occasions including a season-high 174 yards against Toronto on Sept. 13. In nine games (with three of those being partial games) he has averaged 120.2 yards per contest. By comparison, when Mike Pringle set the CFL single-season rushing record in 1998, he averaged 114.7 yards per game. Cornish has five rushing touchdowns this season as well as 18 receptions for 133 yards and one score. He has received eight CFL player of the week awards — offensive player of the week five times and top Canadian on three occasions — and was the league’s offensive player and Canadian of the month for September. If Cornish wins the rushing title — he has a 230-yard lead on Edmonton’s John White heading into the final weekend of the regular season — he will do so in the fewest games since the CFL adopted an 18-game schedule in 1986. Mike Washington, who played 11 games en route to the 1992 rushing title, is the current record-holder. Cornish is trying to join Johnny Bright (three in a row from 1957-59), George Reed (five straight from 1965-69) and Pringle (four in a row from 1997-2000) as the only CFLers to win at least three rushing titles. This is the fifth year in a row Cornish has been the Stamps’ nominee for Most Outstanding Canadian and the third straight year he has been the team’s MOP candidate.

Shawn Lemon (Most Outstanding Defensive Player): The fourth-year defensive end out of Akron has had a record-breaking season for the Red and White. Lemon has established a franchise single-season record for forced fumbles with seven and with one game remaining is within one forced fumble of the CFL record. He has established career highs in games played (17), tackles (30) and sacks (11) and also recorded his first career interception. Lemon’s sack total makes him the team leader and puts him in a tie for seventh place in the league stats. Ten of Lemon’s 11 sacks have come since Week 7, a total that ties him with Hamilton’s Eric Norwood for the most in the league during that period. He has two separate streaks this season of four consecutive games with a sack. Lemon was the CFL’s defensive player of the week in Week 15 when he recorded three tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble.

Brett Jones (Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman): The second-year product of the University of Regina has continued to build on his superb rookie season with a stellar sophomore campaign. Jones is the only Calgary offensive lineman to start all 17 games to date this season and, as the centre, he has the responsibility of making line calls. Jones has been an integral part of a front line that has allowed a league-low 26 sacks this season and paved the way for the Stamps to lead the CFL with an average of 149.1 rushing yards per game.

Rob Maver (Most Outstanding Special Teams Player): The CFL’s all-star punter in each of the past two years is turning in another great season. He is averaging 45.5 yards on his 119 punts and he ranks second in the all-important category of net punting with an average of 38.1 yards, leaving him a mere tenth of a yard behind leader Swayze Waters of the Toronto Argonauts. On June 28 against the Montreal Alouettes, Maver launched the longest punt of his career, an 88-yarder. He is second in the CFL with 37 punts inside the opponents’ 20-yard line and he has nine punts inside the 10.

Sederrik Cunningham (Most Outstanding Rookie): The Furman University product has appeared in 10 games as a rookie and made an impact both on offence and on special teams. In fact, he is one of only three players in the CFL this season to score a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown and a kick-return touchdown. Montreal’s James Rodgers and Edmonton’s Kendial Lawrence are the others to record the touchdown hat trick. Cunningham scored a 20-yard rushing touchdown and a 67-yard punt return touchdown during the Aug. 24 game in Ottawa. He added a receiving touchdown on Sept. 13 against Toronto. Cunningham has 1,225 combined yards this season including 734 on 34 kickoff returns (a 21.6-yard average), 358 on punt returns (11.2-yard average), 33 on missed-field goal returns, 61 on four catches and 39 on two carries.

The West and East and Division finalists for the 2014 CFL awards will be announced on Thursday, Nov. 13 and the awards will be handed out on Thursday, Nov. 27 during Grey Cup week festivities in Vancouver.