A Nebraska quarterback was one of 35 players named to a preseason awards watch list. Jeff Sims was named to the Davey O’Brien Award watch list on Tuesday afternoon.
The Davey O’Brien Award is presented annually to the nation’s best college quarterback. Sims will be spending his first season in Lincoln after spending the last three years at Georgia Tech.
In 23 career games, he threw for 4,464 yards and 30 touchdowns while rushing for 1,152 yards and 11 touchdowns. Nebraska has only won the Davey O’Brien Award one time since the award’s inception in 1981.
Eric Crouch won the honor during the 2001 season. That season Crouch would run for 1,115 yards and 18 touchdowns while throwing for 1,510 yards and seven touchdowns with ten interceptions
Find a photo gallery of Eric Crouch’s Nebraska career below.