TOLEDO, Ohio – Toledo quarterback Tucker Gleason was named the Mid-American Conference's Offensive Player of the Week and kick returner Trayvon Rudolph earned the league's Co-Special Teams Player of the Week in the league's Week 11 awards announced on Monday.
 
The senior quarterback Gleason took his third weekly award of the season. He completed 25-of-31 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns, along with a two-yard rushing score. The 309 yards passing was a season high.
 
Gleason reached two career milestones in the game, becoming the ninth player in program history to reach 6,000 passing yards and the sixth to reach 50 passing touchdowns.
 
Toledo's signal caller leads the league in completion percentage (66.5) and pass efficiency (151.2), and is tied for the league high with 15 passing touchdowns.
 
Rudolph, a senior, set the tone on the opening kick, taking it 96 yards to the house for a touchdown. The return score established a lead that Toledo would not lose all night.
 
The return touchdown was Toledo's first kick return TD since Jacquez Stuart on Oct. 31, 2023. Rudolph marked his second kick return touchdown of his career, returning one back in 2021 against Bowling Green while playing for Northern Illinois.
 
Toledo blasted Northern Illinois 42-3 on Wednesday, earning its fifth consecutive home win.  The Rockets (5-4, 3-2 MAC) heads to Miami (5-4, 4-1 MAC) in a key MACtion matchup on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN2.