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Bryce Young Wins 2021 Davey O'Brien, Maxwell Awards

Young brings both awards back to Tuscaloosa for the second year in a row following Mac Jones and DeVonta Smith in 2020.
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Bryce Young Wins 2021 Davey O'Brien, Maxwell Awards
Bryce Young Wins 2021 Davey O'Brien, Maxwell Awards

With the regular season drawn to a close and the College Football Playoff teams determined, it is officially awards season in college football. 

There is no shortage of awards that Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is nominated for, and on Thursday night he took home the Davey O'Brien Award for the nation's best college quarterback and the Maxwell Award for the most outstanding player at the College Football Awards Show.

Young makes it back-to-back award winners for the Crimson Tide as he joins Mac Jones from last season as a Davey O’Brien winner. He is the first sophomore to win the award since 2015. 

The award has been presented by the Davey O'Brien foundation since 1977. The other finalists for the Davey O’Brien award were Kenny Pickett from Pitt and CJ Stroud from Ohio State. 

This also makes consecutive award winners in the Maxwell for Alabama as Young becomes the fifth Crimson Tide player to win the award joining AJ McCarron (2013), Derrick Henry (2015), Tua Tagovailoa (2018), and DeVonta Smith (2020).

The other finalists for the Maxwell Award were Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett and Michigan State running back Kenneth Walker III. 

On the season, Young has completed 68% of his passes for 4,322 yards and 43 touchdowns compared to just four interceptions. He is fourth in the country in passing yards and second in passing touchdowns with the 43. Young is currently tied with Tua Tagovailoa for the Alabama single season passing TDs record and has at least one game in the playoffs to break the record. He has also rushed for three touchdowns this year. 

Young set the Alabama single-game record for passing yards in a game with 559 against Arkansas and as led Alabama to an SEC title and the No. 1 seed in the CFP. 

The true sophomore quarterback was named the SEC offensive player of the year on Wednesday by the AP and SEC, AP player of the year earlier on Thursday, and he is also one of four finalists for the Heisman Trophy which will be revealed on Saturday night.

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Katie Windham
KATIE WINDHAM

Katie Windham is the assistant editor for BamaCentral, primarily covering football, basketball, gymnastics and softball. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama and has covered a variety of Crimson Tide athletics since 2019 for outlets like The Tuscaloosa News, The Crimson White and the Associated Press before joining BamaCentral full time in 2021. Windham has covered College Football Playoff games, the Women's College World Series, NCAA March Madness, SEC Tournaments and championships in multiple sports.

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