WAVERLY, Iowa- The No. 17/x Wartburg football team (6-0 overall, 4-0 A-R-C) hosts Nebraska Wesleyan (1-4, 0-3) Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the annual Homecoming game.

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The Series
Wartburg holds the all-time series lead at 5-0, which is every season since NWU entered the league in 2016.
 
Wartburg
Senior Hunter Clasen (Springbrook) leads the team with 587 yards on the ground and seven touchdowns. Senior Nile McLaughlin (Eldridge) has thrown for 1,317 yards and 12 touchdowns.
 
Drake George (Epworth) and Carter Henry (Cresco) lead the receivers with 236 yards each.
 
Ben Bryant (Peosta), who set the season record for punt return yards last year, leads the team with 15 punt returns for 244 yards. He also has 264 rushing yards for three touchdown, and 141 receiving yards for two touchdowns.
 
Senior Owen Grover (Dyersville) leads the defense with 43 tackles, and junior Nate Link (Eldridge) follows with 41 tackles.
 
Senior Jordan Downing (Waverly) leads the team with 10.5 TFLs, and classmate Riley Konrardy (LaMotte) has a team-best 6.5 sacks.
 
Career Record Watch
Ben Bryant is fifth in average yards/punt return (14.5), seventh in punt return yards (593) and tied for fifth in punt return TDs (1). Antonio Santillan is tied for fifth in interception return TDs (1), tied for seventh in assisted tackles (130), and ninth in total tackles (251).
 
National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 50 of 19 team categories. The Knights are: first in rushing defense (20.3) and winning percentage (1.000), second in sacks (4.67), third in interceptions (13), fourth in red zone defense (.444), sixth in third down conversion percentage defense (.228) and scoring defense (6.3), eighth in turnovers gained (16), 10^th in total defense (207.8), 11^th in pass efficiency defense (89.43), 16^th in fourth down conversion percentage defense (.200), 18^th in punt returns (17.88) and turnover margin (1.33), 24^th in kickoff return defense (14.62), 28^th in blocked punts (1), 36^th in scoring offense (37.5), 40^th in first downs offense (122), 43^rd in total offense (423.2), and 49^th in first downs defense (77).
 
Individually, nine players rank in the top 50.
 
McLaughlin is 32^nd in passing yards (1,317), 34^th in passing TDs (12), and 44^th in completions/game (18.67),
 
O'Neill is 16^th in field goals/game (1.17), 27^th in field goal percentage (.778), and 32^nd in points (47).
 
Owen Grover and Parker Rochford are 44^th in interceptions/game (.50). Rochford is also fourth in passes defended (2.0).
Kaleb Lamphier is sixth in punt return TDs (1), and  Bryant is seventh in punt returns (16.3).
 
Clasen is 18^th in rush yards/carry (6.99), rushing TDs (7), and rushing yards (587), 30^th in total touchdowns (7), 39^th in points (42), and 45^th in rushing yards/game (97.8).
 
Riley Konrardy and Jordan Downing are 23^rd in sacks (1.00).
 
Downing is also 36^th in TFLs. (1.8).
 
Against the Conference
Wartburg leads the league in points, rushing yards for both offense and defense, punt yards, field gaols, sacks.
 
Individually, Clasen leads all players on the ground and in all purpose yards.
 
O'Neill has the most field goals and PATs, and Bryant has the most punt returns and yards.
 
Nebraska Wesleyan
Trystin Meyers leads his team on the ground with 217 yards and two TDs. Carter Terry has thrown for 1,011 yards and 11 TDs. Two receivers have over 200-yards as Trace Leners has 243, and Myers has 226.

Caleb Kyers leads the defense with 36 tackles.