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BERKELEY: Jordan Kunaszyk became the first Cal player to earn Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week honors when he was selected for the prestigious award Sunday while joining three other Cal players that previously earned the offensive version of the honor in DeSean Jackson (9/30/07), Shane Vereen (11/22/09) and Jared Goff (9/28/14).

Kunaszyk led Cal's defensive performance in a 37-3 victory over previously unbeaten No. 8/9 Washington State on Friday to give the Golden Bears their first victory over a top-10 team since a 34-31 triple overtime victory over USC in 2003. Kunaszyk established or equaled career highs with 11 tackles, 2.5 sacks (-31 yards), 2.5 tackles for loss (-31 yards), one forced fumble, one interception and one quarterback hurry. Cal forced seven Washington State turnovers and had 9.0 sacks as a team with the sacks tied for the second-most by an FBS squad in 2017 and the most by a Cal team since a 2005 contest at Stanford.

Kunaszyk was also named the College Sports Madness Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week on Sunday and has been nominated for the same honor awarded by the league to be announced Monday.

Kunaszyk has all 23 of his tackles for the 2017 season over the last three games after previously playing only in Cal's season-opener at North Carolina before missing the next three contests due to injury. He also had an interception in his first game back in action at Oregon that he returned for 23 yards and has two picks on the season to co-lead the team. His 2.5 sacks are second on the team behind only Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year candidate Devante Downs while his -31 yards for his sack and tackle for loss yardage totals lead the Golden Bears.

Cal (4-3, 1-3 Pac-12) will host Arizona (4-2, 2-1 Pac-12) at California Memorial Stadium for Homecoming this Saturday, Oct. 21 (5 pm PDT, Pac-12 Networks).

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