Auburn center named to award watchlist

Nick Brahms has made the watchlist three years in a row now.

Award watchlists typically kick up right before the college football season, and another Auburn football player has made a list.

Auburn center [autotag]Nick Brahms[/autotag], who first came to Auburn in 2018, was named to the Rimington Trophy watchlist on Friday. The Rimington Trophy is awarded yearly to the best center in college football.

The trophy watchlist is made up of 40 players and was created with the help of Pro Football Focus. Brahms, who is using an extra season of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been on the watchlist for the past three years. He has yet to win it, however, as that honor has gone to Wisconsin’s Tyler Biadasz (2019), Alabama’s Landon Dickerson (2020) and Iowa’s Tyler Linderbaum (2021) in the years that he was nominated.

Auburn has had only one player win the trophy, which happened in 2014 when Reese Dismukes emerged as the winner. Dismukes was a consensus First-Team All-American and All-SEC nomination the year he won the award.

The winner of the award will be announced on Jan. 14, 2023 in Lincoln, Nebraska.