The Penn State College Football Awards Watch List

It's watch list season. The nominations are in for your favorite Nittany Lions.

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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Our first watch list of the preseason is out, for the Maxwell Award, featuring 85 standout returning players. Follow along for the next two weeks as we roll out 16 watch lists: https://t.co/LzCmc1G87K pic.twitter.com/QpznanZ2Y0

— NCFAA (@ncfaa) July 18, 2022

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