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Jackson Named to Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List
7/21/2017 10:09:00 AM | Football
EVANSTON, Ill. — The Walter Camp Football Foundation has announced the names of forty "players to watch" for its 2017 Player of the Year award, including Northwestern senior running back Justin Jackson.
The nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade, the Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list includes 30 schools and 10 conferences represented.
The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in mid-November. The 2017 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 130 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on Thursday, December 7. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's 51st annual national awards banquet on January 13, 2018 in New Haven.
Jackson has also been named to the Doak Walker Award, Maxwell Award and Wuerffel Trophy watch lists and is a nominee for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.
Jackson is second-leading rusher in program history with 4,129 career rushing yards. He is second among active FBS Division I football players entering the 2017 season. Jackson earned First-Team All-Big Ten honors as a junior, rushing for a career-high 1,524 yards and 15 touchdowns while becoming the first player in program history to rush for 1,000-plus yards in three-straight seasons. He also led the Big Ten with 117.2 rushing yards per game, ranked 13th in the country in total rushing yards and 16th in rushing yards per contest. The Carol Stream, Illinois, native capped last season with a career-high 224 yards and three touchdowns to earn MVP honors in the Wildcats' 31-24 win over No. 23 Pittsburgh in the 2016 New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
The senior is among 10 running backs named to the Walter Camp watch list, including Saquon Barkley (Penn State), Nick Chubb (Georgia), Bo Scarbrough (Alabama,), Jarvion Franklin (Western Michigan), Royce Freeman (Oregon), Derrius Guice (LSU), Jalin Moore (Appalachian State), Rashaad Penny (San Diego State) and Mark Walton (Miami).
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (www.waltercamp.org; @WalterCampFF) – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses college football's most prestigious awards. Founded in 1997, the NCFAA and its 23 awards now boast over 800 recipients, dating to 1935. Visit ncfaa.org to learn more about our story. The members of the NCFAA unveiled their preseason watch lists over a two-week period (July 9-21). Sixteen of the association's 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA has spearheaded a coordinated effort to promote each award's preseason candidates.
The nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade, the Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list includes 30 schools and 10 conferences represented.
The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in mid-November. The 2017 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 130 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on Thursday, December 7. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's 51st annual national awards banquet on January 13, 2018 in New Haven.
Jackson has also been named to the Doak Walker Award, Maxwell Award and Wuerffel Trophy watch lists and is a nominee for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.
Jackson is second-leading rusher in program history with 4,129 career rushing yards. He is second among active FBS Division I football players entering the 2017 season. Jackson earned First-Team All-Big Ten honors as a junior, rushing for a career-high 1,524 yards and 15 touchdowns while becoming the first player in program history to rush for 1,000-plus yards in three-straight seasons. He also led the Big Ten with 117.2 rushing yards per game, ranked 13th in the country in total rushing yards and 16th in rushing yards per contest. The Carol Stream, Illinois, native capped last season with a career-high 224 yards and three touchdowns to earn MVP honors in the Wildcats' 31-24 win over No. 23 Pittsburgh in the 2016 New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
The senior is among 10 running backs named to the Walter Camp watch list, including Saquon Barkley (Penn State), Nick Chubb (Georgia), Bo Scarbrough (Alabama,), Jarvion Franklin (Western Michigan), Royce Freeman (Oregon), Derrius Guice (LSU), Jalin Moore (Appalachian State), Rashaad Penny (San Diego State) and Mark Walton (Miami).
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (www.waltercamp.org; @WalterCampFF) – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses college football's most prestigious awards. Founded in 1997, the NCFAA and its 23 awards now boast over 800 recipients, dating to 1935. Visit ncfaa.org to learn more about our story. The members of the NCFAA unveiled their preseason watch lists over a two-week period (July 9-21). Sixteen of the association's 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA has spearheaded a coordinated effort to promote each award's preseason candidates.
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