UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford has been named to The Manning Award watch list, it was announced on Thursday.
The list includes 32 of the top quarterbacks in the nation heading into the 2021 season. The winner will again be selected by a voting panel, which includes national media and each of the Mannings, after the bowls.
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates' bowl performances in its balloting.
Sean Clifford Bio:
- Has played in 25 career games, making 20 starts.
- Has 11 career games with two or more passing touchdowns, eight with three or more and two with four or more.
- Owns 11 career games with multi-passing touchdown halves and eight games with multi-passing TD quarters.
- Has thrown for at least 250 passing yards and three passing touchdowns in five career games.
- Has four career touchdown passes of 70 or more yards.
- Has completed 63 career passes of 20 or more yards.
- Is one of 11 Penn State players to reach 5,000 yards of total offense and one of 12 quarterbacks to eclipse 4,000 career passing yards.
- Sits as the current all-time leader at Penn State with a career passing efficiency rating of 146.8.
- Ranks second all-time at Penn State in completion percentage (.600), third in yards per attempt (8.2), fourth in touchdown percentage (7.11), fifth in passing touchdowns (41), 11th in passing yardage (4.732) and completions (346), 12th in attempts (577) and tied for 14th in yards per completion (13.7).
- Is fifth in school history for 300-yard passing games (3) and tied for seventh for 200-yard games (11).
- Among Penn State quarterbacks, is third all-time at PSU with rushing yardage (734) and tied for eighth in rushing touchdowns (8).
- Is seventh all-time in program history in career total yards (5,466) and eighth in touchdowns responsible for (49).
Penn State Football Preseason Honors/Watch Lists
Jaquan Brisker: Bednarik Award, Jim Thorpe Award, Nagurski Trophy
Sean Clifford: Allstate Good Works Team Nominee, Wuerffel Trophy, Manning Award
Noah Cain: Doak Walker Award
Jahan Dotson: Maxwell Award, Biletnikoff Award, Big Ten Player to Watch, Paul Hornung Award
James Franklin: Dodd Trophy
Keyvone Lee: Doak Walker Award
John Lovett: Doak Walker Award
Jesse Luketa: Butkus Award
Mike Miranda: Outland Trophy
Brandon Smith: Butkus Award
Brenton Strange: Mackey Award
Rasheed Walker: Outland Trophy
Penn State's season opener on Sept. 4 at Wisconsin will kick off at noon on FOX. The Nittany Lions will make their return to Beaver Stadium on Sept. 11 vs. Ball State, a 3:30 p.m. ET start on FS1. Penn State's 2021 schedule with updated kick times and TV designations can be found here: https://bit.ly/3fVFuhc.
For information on joining the Nittany Lion Club and reserving new season tickets for the 2021 Penn State Football season presented by PSECU, as well as club seating in Beaver Stadium, fans can visit www.PSUnrivaled.com, or call 1-800-NITTANY weekdays from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
The 2021 Penn State Football season is presented by PSECU.