13 SEC players on watch list for best player in college football for 2018
By SDS Staff
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The Maxwell Award is given annually to the best all-around college football player.
Nine former SEC players have won the award, with the last one coming in 2015 to former Alabama RB Derrick Henry. The only two-time former SEC winner was Tim Tebow in 2007 and 2008.
Thirteen SEC players are included on this year’s watchlist, and three teams have two players each: Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Ten of 14 SEC teams are represented, as Arkansas, Florida, LSU and Tennessee were not represented.
Here are the 13 SEC players included on the 2018 Maxwell Award watch list:
- Jalen Hurts, QB, Alabama
- Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama
- Jarrett Stidham, QB, Auburn
- Jake Fromm, QB, Georgia
- D’Andre Swift, RB, Georgia
- Benny Snell, RB, Kentucky
- Nick Fitzgerald, QB, Mississippi State
- Drew Lock, QB, Missouri
- AJ Brown, WR, Ole Miss
- Jake Bentley, QB, South Carolina
- Deebo Samuel, WR, South Carolina
- Trayveon Williams, RB, Texas A&M
- Kyle Shurmur, QB, Vanderbilt
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