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Maxwell Award is out with its watch list as the award is presented to the best player in college football.
USC’s Caleb Williams won the award last year, and that snapped a 4-year streak of SEC players winning the award, after Alabama’s Bryce Young, DeVonta Smith, LSU’s Joe Burrow and Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa.
The award is named after Robert “Tiny” Maxwell, a Swarthmore College football player, coach, and sportswriter.
The Maxwell Football Club was founded in 1935 by his friend, Bert Bell, to present awards in his name to promote football safety. The Maxwell Award was founded in 1937.
Here are this year’s SEC players on the watch list as the season begins:
Alabama: Jase McClellan; Arkansas: KJ Jefferson, Raheim Sanders; Florida: Ricky Pearsall; Georgia: Brock Bowers; Kentucky: Devin Leary; LSU: Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers; Mississippi State: Will Rogers; Ole Miss: Quinshon Judkins; South Carolina: Spencer Rattler, Antwane Wells; Tennessee: Joe Milton; Vanderbilt: Will Sheppard.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
