Will the SEC get to claim college football’s most versatile player at the end of the 2016 season?
Seven players from around the conference have made the 43-player watch list for the Paul Hornung Award, which goes to the most versatile player of the year:
- Antonio Callaway, Florida
- Jared Cornelius, Arkansas
- Johnathan “Rudy” Ford, Auburn
- Brandon Holloway, Mississippi State
- Christian Kirk, Texas A&M
- Isaiah McKenzie, Georgia
- Cameron Sutton, Tennessee
The award, in its seventh season, is named after 1956 Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung, who played every position in the Notre Dame backfield.
“I’m ecstatic that the Paul Hornung Award has gained national prominence in such a short time,” Hornung said in the watch list announcement. “During the past six years the quality of our winners, finalists and weekly honorees has been impressive, and I’m pleased that we are able to acknowledge outstanding players who contribute any way possible to help their teams win the way I did.”
The versatile SEC players will have a tough task in dethroning last year’s winner, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey who is on the watch list again in 2016.
The award will be given out at a banquet in Louisville in February 2017.
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