BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2013 Ole Miss senior running back Devin Thomas is the Southeastern Conference Football Community Service Team Player of the Week for Week 9 of the SEC football season.<\/p>\n
Thomas has visited with children at St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital and read at local elementary schools as part of \u201cReading with the Rebels.\u201d He took part in a toy drive for Toys for Tots, the SEC\u2019s \u201cTogether We Can\u201d food drive and Relay for Life.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio, Texas native has volunteered to clean up The Grove after football gamedays on the Ole Miss campus and participated with his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in Project Alpha, in which college students mentor inner-city youth.<\/p>\n
Thomas is a member of the Ole Miss Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Student-Athlete Welfare Committee. He is a three-year letterman and recipient of the 2009 Jeff Hamm Memorial Award for Most Improved Offensive Player in the spring.<\/p>\n
2012 SEC Football Community Service Team
\nWeek 1 – Philip Lutzenkirchen, Auburn
\nWeek 2 – Michael Lamothe, Texas A&M
\nWeek 3 – Aaron Murray, Georgia
\nWeek 4 – Dylan Thompson, South Carolina
\nWeek 5 – T.J. Moe, Missouri
\nWeek 6 – Barkevious Mingo, DE, LSU
\nWeek 7 – Morgan Newton, QB, Kentucky
\nWeek 8 – Caleb Sturgis, PK, Florida
\nWeek 9 – Devin Thomas, RB, Ole Miss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"