Sean Clifford named to Davey O’Brien Award watch list
Another day of watch list season included another watch list to include Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford. Clifford was included on the watch list for the Davey O’Brien Award on Tuesday.
The Davey O’Brien Award is presented annually to the nation’s top quarterback as determined by the Davey O’Brien Foundation.
Clifford is looking to become just the third quarterback in school history to receive the award. Past Penn State winners of the Davey O’Brien Award include Todd Blackledge in 1982 and Kerry Collins in 1994. Blackledge was the second recipient of the Davey O’Brien Award since the award shifted to a focus solely on quarterbacks in 1981 (BYU’s Jim McMahon won the first award after the change).
You've had some time to look over the Preseason Watch List.
So which QBs did we miss? And who you think we will be adding to our Midseason Watch List as the 2022 season rolls along?#DaveyQBs pic.twitter.com/czqPdYeEMy
— Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award (@daveyobrien) July 19, 2022
Previous winners of the Davey O’Brien Award include Steve Young, Doug Flutie, Vinny Testaverde, Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning, Vince Young, Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel, Baker Mayfield, and Joe Burrow. Last year;’s winner of the award was Bryce Young of Alabama.
The last Big Ten quarterback to win the award was Troy Smith of Ohio State in 2006. No other Big Ten program has more than one Davey O’Brien Award winner besides Iowa (Chuck Long in 1985 and Brad Banks in 2002) and Penn State, although one was won when Penn State was an independent (and Nebraska‘s Eric Crouch won the award while playing in the Big 12).
Clifford was also named to the Maxwell Award watch list earlier this week.
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