The Penn State College Football Awards Watch List
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College football season is on the horizon. We can tell because the college football awards watch list season has begun.
What's watch list season? The leading college football awards release their preseason nominees (usually dozens of them) to tease us for the season. The watch lists will cover nearly two weeks of the preseason, refreshing us about the top players in college football.
So follow along here as we keep tabs on Penn State's awards nominees.
Maxwell Award (National Player of the Year)
- Sean Clifford
Walter Camp Award (National Player of the Year)
- Sean Clifford
Davey O'Brien Award (Top quarterback)
- Sean Clifford
Doak Walker Award (Top running back)
- Keyvone Lee
Biletnikoff Award (Top receiver)
- Parker Washington
- Mitchell Tinsley
Mackey Award (Top tight end)
- Brenton Strange
- Theo Johnson
Rimington Award (Top center)
- Juice Scruggs
Jim Thorpe Award (Top defensive back)
- Ji'Ayir Brown
- Joey Porter, Jr.
Bronko Nagurski Award (Top defensive player)
- PJ Mustipher
- Joey Porter, Jr.
Outland Trophy (Top interior lineman, offense or defense)
- PJ Mustipher
Bednarik Award (Top defensive player)
- Ji'Ayir Brown
- Joey Porter Jr.
Paul Hornung Award (Most versatile player)
- Jonathan Sutherland
Patrick Mannelly Award (Top long-snapper)
- Chris Stoll
Lott IMPACT Award
- Joey Porter, Jr.
Wuerffel Trophy (Community service)
- Sean Clifford
AFCA Good Works Team
- Long snapper Chris Stoll
Penn State did not place a linebacker on the Butkus Award watch list. Curtis Jacobs, Jonathan Sutherland, Kobe King and Tyler Elsdon will have an opportunity to play their ways onto the list this season.
Penn State opens the season Sept. 1 at Purdue. The Nittany Lions begin their home schedule Sept. 8 against Ohio.
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