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LAS VEGAS\u00a0– San Jos\u00e9 State placekicker Trajan Sinatra<\/a> has been named the Old Trapper Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week following his two long field-goal performance in the Spartans’ 27-21 victory over Eastern Michigan, announced by the conference on Monday.<\/p>\n The San Jose native accounted for a 45-yard field goal to end the first half and a 49-yard field goal with just over a minute left in the game to give the Spartans a six-point lead. Sinatra also went a perfect 3-for-3 on point-after-touchdown (PAT) attempts to help spark SJSU’s second-half rally against the Eagles and lead the Spartans to their first road win since Nov. 9, 2024.<\/p>\n Sinatra becomes the first San Jos\u00e9 State player to earn Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week honors since punter Will Hart<\/a> received the recognition in 2021, and the first Spartan placekicker since Matt Mercurio<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n Trajan Sinatra<\/a>, K, Jr., San Jose, Calif.\/Silver Creek HS\/Idaho State<\/p>\n First season at SJSU and first MW Player of the Week Award UP NEXT: The Spartans will face Cal Poly for their home opener on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 6:00 p.m. at CEFCU Stadium, and tickets can be purchased here<\/a>. The game can be watched on\u00a0MW+<\/a>.<\/p>\n #AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0– San Jos\u00e9 State placekicker Trajan Sinatra has been named the Old Trapper Mountain West Special Teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-456341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n3-for-3 on field goal attempts in 2026 with a long of 49 yards
\n4-for-4 on PATs in 2026<\/p>\n