Sacred Heart University

2020-21:

• Finished third in voting for the Walter Payton Award.
• AP and FCS First-Team All-American.
• AFCA First-Team All-American.
• Named to Hero Sports All-America team.
• Earned Athlon First-Team All-America honors.
• Stats Perform First-Team All-American.
• NEC Offensive Player of the Year.
• Led the FCS with 205.2 all-purpose yards per game and a program-record 171.0 yards per game.
• Awarded National Offensive Player of the Week (3/8).
• Tied for first in the nation for most touchdowns (12).
• Earned NEC Offensive Player of the Week three times (3/8, 3/15, & 3/22). 
• Tallied 249 total yards with a career-high tying 203 rushing yards against LIU (3/14).

2019:

• Awarded Third-Team All-American by Associated Press and STATS.
• Named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award.
• All-New England Team.
• First-Team All-ECAC.
• First-Team All-NEC.
• Rushed for 1,495 yards: the second-most in the program’s history and third-most in the nation.
• Received NEC Offensive Player of the Week twice (9/9 & 11/4).
• Rushed for over 110 yards in 9 games.

2018:

• NEC Offensive Rookie of the Year
• Four-time NEC Rookie of the Week (11/12, 11/5, 10/29, 9/3)
• STATS FCS - Honorable Mention for National Rookie of the Week (10/29)
• Named one of 20 finalists nationwide for the STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award, which is presented annually to the FCS Freshman of the Year.
• Chestnut becomes the first Pioneer to be selected as the Offensive Rookie of the Year since RJ Noel in 2013
• Produced a huge breakout campaign in 2018, finishing the season with 713 rushing yards and seven touchdowns while playing in all 11 games
• His 68.4 rushing yards per game this season ranks him eighth in the NEC
• Rushed for 57 yards and two touchdowns in his collegiate debut against Lafayette (9/1), a performance that earned him his first of four NEC Rookie of the Week awards
• Chestnut compiled three consecutive weeks of 130+ yard performances, beginning with a season-high 164 yards rushing on 13 carries and three touchdowns against Bryant (10/27)
• He followed that up with a 152-yard rushing performance against Robert Morris and 131 rushing yards at Duquesne on just 10 carrie
• His 13.1 yards per carry against Duquesne (11/10) ranks tied for second in school history for a single game (minimum 10 carries)
• Over that same three-game span, he scored five touchdowns, four of which went for at least 60 yards

High School:

• Highly productive back at Archbishop Spaulding, finishing his high school career with 37 total touchdowns (35 rushing, two receiving)
• Rushed for 817 yards on 133 carries in eight games (6.1 ypc, 102.1 ypg) to go along with 13 touchdowns in his senior season in 2017
• Produced 945 yards on 142 carries in 11 games (6.7 ypc, 85.9 ypg) while rushing for an impressive 21 touchdowns in 2016