Louisville QB Jack Plummer Named to Maxwell Award Watch List

The award is presented annually to the most outstanding player in college football.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville quarterback Jack Plummer has been named to the watch list for the 87th Maxwell Award, the Maxwell Football Club announced Monday.

Plummer is one of 84 players at the FBS level to be named to the watch list for this year's Maxwell Award, which is presented annually to the most outstanding player in college football. He is also one of 10 players from the ACC to make the list.

The 6-foot-5, 215-pound signal spent last season at Cal after starting his career at Purdue with now-Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm, and made the most of his fresh start. Starting all 12 games for the Golden Bears, he completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 3,095 yards, 21 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. His yardage mark was good for sixth-most in Cal history for a single season, and ranked No. 22 in FBS through the end of the regular season.

Prior to his one-year stop in Berkeley, Calif., Plummer spent the first four years of his collegiate career in West Lafayette, Ind. with the Boilermakers. He redshirted in 2018, started six games in 2019 after Elijah Sindelar suffered a season-ending injury, then started the final three games of Purdue's COVID-shortened 2020 season. He then started the first four games of 2021 before getting benched in favor of Aidan O'Connell.

Making 17 total appearances with 13 starts at Purdue, he completed 64.8 percent of his throws for 3,405 yards, 26 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. For his career, the Gilbert, Ariz. native has a completion rate of 63.7 percent, throwing for 6,500 yards and 47 touchdowns to 19 interceptions.

Louisville finished the 2022 season with an overall mark of 8-5, including 4-4 in the ACC and a 24-7 win in the Fenway Bowl over Cincinnati. The Cardinals will kick off their 2023 season against Georgia Tech in the Aflac Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. on Friday, Sept. 1.

(Photo of Jack Plummer via University of Louisville Athletics)

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