ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T linebacker Ben Straatmann (Washington, MO/Washington), who led all of NCAA Division II in quarterback sacks during the 2021 season, was honored Sunday as one of the selections to the D2Football.com Elite 100 squad for the past season.

Straatmann, who set new S&T single season records with 14 quarterback sacks and 24 tackles for a loss during the Miners' 6-5 campaign, also led the team with 92 tackles.  His sack average of 1.27 per game was the best in NCAA Division II during the recently completed campaign.

In addition to those marks, Straatmann – a first-team all-conference selection in the Great Lakes Valley Conference in 2021 – also set single-game records for sacks and tackles for a loss during the year when he had five sacks and six stops behind the line of scrimmage in S&T's contest at Quincy.  He was named as the GLVC's Defensive Player of the Week following the Miners' season-ending victory at Southwest Baptist after recording a season-high 13 tackles along with 4.5 stops for a loss and 2.5 sacks.

That performance at SBU also earned Straatmann national defensive player of the week honors from D2Football.com.

Straatmann was one of six players from GLVC schools named to the Elite 100 team, which included Lindenwood linebacker Drew Seers – the defensive player of the year – Truman State running back Cory Schrader, Indianapolis running back Toriano Clinton, Southwest Baptist quarterback Cooper Callis and SBU linebacker Coleton Smith.