Voting is officially closed on the Enquirer's Week 9 Cincinnati-native college football player of the week, and voters have selected a pair of winners.

St. Xavier swept the awards this week. In the Division I category, former Bomber Grant Lyons, now a linebacker at Miami-Ohio, is the winner. Matthew Rueve, who graduated from St. Xavier and now plays quarterback at Findlay College, is the winner in the small school category.

Lyons recorded his first career tackle and half of a sack as the RedHawks clobbered Central Michigan 46-7 on Saturday. The 6-foot-3, 238-pound redshirt-sophomore has played sparingly so far in his RedHawk career, but he made good use of the playing time he received in the blowout. Lyons was a game-wrecker at St. Xavier, finishing his senior season in 2021 with 67 tackles, nine sacks, three forced fumbles and three interceptions.

Rueve, a redshirt-senior, completed 17-of-25 passes for 247 yards and three touchdowns to zero interceptions in Findlay's 34-17 win over Thomas More last Saturday. So far this season, he's completed 62% of his passes for 2,026 yards and 22 touchdowns. Rueve spent the first four years of his career at Boston College after coming out of St. Xavier as a three-star pro style quarterback prospect in 2019. In his one season as the starter for the Bombers, he threw for 3,216 yards and 28 touchdowns.

Previous winners from this season in the Division I category:

Previous winners this season in the small school category:

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