UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford was named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list on Friday.
The Walter Camp Player of the Year is the fourth-oldest award in college football.
Sean Clifford · R-Sr.+ · QB · 6-2 · 212 · Cincinnati, Ohio · Saint Xavier
- Also represented on Davey O'Brien Award, Maxwell Award and Wuerffel Trophy watch lists.
- Has played in 38 career games, making 33 starts.
- Is one of three Penn State players to reach 8,000 yards of total offense and one of three PSU quarterbacks to eclipse 7,500 career passing yards.
- Sits as the current all-time leader at Penn State in completion percentage (.603).
- Ranks second at PSU in career passing touchdowns (62), third in passing yardage (7,839), completions (607) and passing efficiency (141.2), fourth in attempts (1,006), tied for seventh in yards per passing attempt (7.8), eighth in lowest interception percentage (2.49), and 10th in touchdown pass percentage (6.16) and wins as a starting quarterback (21).
- Is third in school history in 300-yard passing games (7) and 200-yard games (19).
- Among Penn State quarterbacks, is third all-time at PSU in rushing yardage (897) and tied for sixth in rushing touchdowns (10).
- Is second all-time in program history in career total yards (8,736) and touchdowns responsible for (72).
- Owns 26 career games with multi-touchdown passes, including 12 with three or more TDs and three with four or more.
- Has 16 career games with multi-passing touchdown halves and nine games with multi-passing TD quarters.
- Has thrown for at least 250 passing yards and three passing touchdowns in eight career games.
- Has six career touchdown passes of 70 or more yards.
- Has completed 105 career passes of 20 or more yards.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation will narrow the watch list down to 10 semifinalists in mid-November. The Walter Camp Player of the Year will be announced on The Home Depot College Football Awards Show. The winner will receive his trophy at the foundation's 55th annual national awards banquet in New Haven, Conn. in early 2023.
Walter Camp, "The Father of American Football", first selected an All-America team in 1889. The former Yale University athlete and coach is 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 was established in New Haven in 1967.
Penn State Football Recognized on 2022 Preseason Watch Lists
Ji'Ayir Brown: Jim Thorpe Award
Sean Clifford: Davey O'Brien Award, Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Player of the Year, Wuerffel Trophy
Theo Johnson: Mackey Award
Keyvone Lee: Doak Walker Award
PJ Mustipher: Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Outland Trophy
Joey Porter Jr.: Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Jim Thorpe Award, Lott IMPACT Trophy
Juice Scruggs: Rimington Trophy
Chris Stoll: Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
Brenton Strange: Mackey Award
Jonathan Sutherland: Paul Hornung Award
Mitchell Tinsley: Biletnikoff Award
Parker Washington: Biletnikoff Award
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