North Texas junior kick returner Kaylon Horton was named the Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Week, the league announced.

Horton scored the fourth touchdown of his career and the first in his Mean Green career with a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in Saturday's game against UNLV at Allegiant Stadium. The touchdown marked Horton's third career special teams touchdown and second kickoff return touchdown, with the first coming in 2020 when he was at Tarleton State.

The 99-yard touchdown tied the game early in the first quarter and tied for the fourth-longest return touchdown in UNT history and was the fourth-longest in FBS this season. It marked the first kickoff return touchdown since Deion Hair-Griffin's 96-yarder in the 2019 season-opening win over Abilene Christian.

Horton is one of only eight active FBS players with three or more career combined kick return touchdowns.

Horton joins junior quarterback Austin Aune as this season's C-USA weekly award winners after Aune was named the Offensive Player of the Week after the Mean Green's season-opening win at UTEP. UNT's last special teams honoree was Ethan Mooney on Oct. 21, 2019.