The 2024 college football season is a little over a month away and it’s time for those preseason award catch lists to come out and one of the biggest lists included two Ducks who expected to have monster seasons.
Both quarterback Dillon Gabriel and wide receiver Tez Johnson appear on the Maxwell Award watchlist. The award, which enters its 88th year is presented annually to the most outstanding player in college football.
These pair of Ducks have great seasons will go a long way towards the Duks’ goal of being a college football playoffs team and a possible national championship contender.
As the team enters the Big Ten, the opposition increases. The conference has their share of watch list members. Michigan has one (RB Donovan Edwards, USC has one (QB Miller Moss) and Ohio State has three (QB Will Howard, RB Quinshon Judkins, and WR Emeka Egbuka).
The watch list will be trimmed down as the season goes along, but expect all of the Big Ten players to remain there for quite some time.
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