The preseason honors keep rolling in for the 2020 LSU Tigers.
Junior wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase and sophomore cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. were named to the 2020 Maxwell Award watch list on Friday.
The Maxwell Award is given annually to the top player in college football. Former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was the program’s last player to win the award, earning it in 2019.
This is the second watch-list nomination for Chase, who was earlier named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list. The 6-foot-0, 208-pound Chase won the Biletnikoff Award last season and was also named a unanimous All-American.
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Stingley was college football’s top freshman one year ago. He was a first-team All-SEC selection and a consensus first-team All-American.
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound sophomore has been named to the watch lists for the Nagurski, Jim Thorpe and Bednarik Awards.
The Maxwell Award dates all the way back to 1937 when Yale’s Clint Frank first won the award. Burrow became the first LSU player ever to win the award last season.
Chase and Stingley are considered by most to be the best at their respective positions.
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