BERLIN- The first Atlantic Physical Therapy “Tough Guy of the Week” award for the Stephen Decatur varsity football team’s 2014 season went to Dryden Brous, who played an exception game in a 28-21 loss in the season opener to Indian River.

Brous, who plays both offense and defense for the Seahawks, scored the team’s first touchdown on a seven-yard run to cut the Indians’ lead to 14-7 in the second quarter. Started 14 years ago by Atlantic Physical Therapy president Bob Hammond, the weekly ATP “Tough Guy of the Week” award acknowledges the efforts of an individual player, or sometimes a unit on the team, that do the little things to help the team that don’t necessarily show up in the box score.

The ATP “Tough Guy” award recognizes those players. After every Decatur game, Hammond presents a trophy to the tough guy of the week. At the end of the season, a “Tough Guy of the Year” award is presented to the player who best represented the qualities of the award week in and week out during the season.