Tag: Lou Groza Award watch list

Alabama football: Will Reichard named to preseason watch list

Will Reichard getting the respect he deserves! 👀🔥

Alabama football is absolutely dominating the preseason award watch lists and earlier today they added to the list in junior placekicker Will Reichard.

Moments ago the Hoover, Ala. native was named to the Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List.

Reichard is coming off a literal perfect season as a sophomore, going  84 for 84 on extra points while also connecting on all 14 field goal attempts.

Reichard scored more points than any other placekicker in the country last season with a total of 126 points scored and finished fifth overall regardless of position.

I think it would be a little unreasonable to believe that Reichard will be perfect again in his junior campaign, but he should still be right there with the top kickers in the country.

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Blake Haubeil named to Lou Groza preseason 2020 watch list

Ohio State placekicker Blake Haubeil has been named to the Lou Groza 2020 preseason watch list as announced on Wednesday.

There have been a litany of college football preseason award watch lists come out over the last week or so, and many of them have a Scarlet and Gray hue to them. So too does the Lou Groza Award that goes to the best college placekicker annually.

According to an announcement Wednesday, Ohio State placekicker Blake Haubeil is among the names appearing on the Groza’s preseason watch list for 2020.

The Award has was first handed out in 1992 and is awarded by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission. It is named after Lou Groza (of course) who was on the Ohio State freshman football team before enlisting in the U.S. Army as World War II raged on.  He played in just three games on the freshman team but became Hall of Famer in the NFL after playing 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns.

Mike Nugent is the only Ohio State player to win the award. He was a runaway winner after an unbelievable 2004 campaign.

 

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