QB Williams wins Walter Camp, Maxwell awards
9:58 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN USC quarterback Caleb Williams headlined the 2022 College
Football Awards on Thursday, as
he was named the Walter Camp Player of the Year and the winner of the Maxwell Award, offered to the very best well-rounded player in college football.Williams, who is the first USC player because running back Marcus Allen in 1981 to win the Maxwell, represented 47 touchdowns while tossing for 4,075 backyards and leading USC to an 11-2 season a year after the Trojans went 4-8. While Williams won both the Maxwell and Walter Camp awards, fellow Heisman Trophy finalist Max Duggan got
the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback of the Year award. Duggan tossed for 3,725 lawns and accounted for 36 touchdowns for TCU this season.The Horned Frogs took house multiple awards on the night. Safety Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson got the Jim Thorpe award, given to the top defensive back in the sport. Sonny Dykes, having led TCU to an unbeaten routine season and a College Football Playoff appearance in his first year, was called the House Depot Coach of the Year and won the Walter Camp National Coach of the Year Award.
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Likewise in his first season on the task, TCU offensive organizer Garrett Riley got the Broyles Award for assistant coach of the year. Riley, the sibling of USC coach Lincoln Riley, was the coach behind the Horned Frogs’ explosive year on offense led by Duggan.For the 2nd year in a row, Alabama’s Will Anderson Jr. won the Nagurski award. He likewise won the Chuck Bednarik Award on Thursday. Both are given to the very best defensive player.The Outland Trophy for the country’s best interior lineman was won by Michigan center Olusegun Oluwatimi, the first Wolverine to capture it. Oluwatimi also won the Rimington Trophy, given to the sport’s finest center.Georgia’s Brock Bowers became the very first Bulldog to win the John Mackey Award for best tight end. Bowers averaged 14 lawns a catch this season and included 6 touchdowns.Tennessee’s Jalin Hyatt got the Biletnikoff Award, given to the very best wide receiver– the very first time a Vols player has won the honor. Hyatt, who had 1,267 receiving lawns, 15 goals and 6 catches of 55 backyards or more this season, vanquish Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr.Though he did not split the Heisman finalists list, Texas’Bijan Robinson did win the Doak Walker Award for the very best running back in college football. Robinson averaged over 6 yards per carry and over 130 hurrying backyards per game, totaling 18 touchdowns.Florida State lineman Dillan Gibbons was granted the Wuerffel Prize, given to the college football player who integrates social work with academic and athletic achievement.Iowa’s Jack Campbell took house the Cock Butkus Award as the leading linebacker. Campbell led the Hawkeyes’defense and completed his season with 115 total tackles– helpful for 13th in the nation. Over the weekend, Campbell also won the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Prize, which honors a college football player who showed a combination of” scholastic success, football performance and exemplary management.”Georgia’s Stetson Bennett won the Burlsworth Trophy, given to the sport’s most impressive player who began his career as a walk-on. Bennett, who led Georgia to a nationwide title last season and will have an opportunity to repeat this season, is likewise among the Heisman finalists for 2022. Rutgers’s Adam Korsak won the Ray Person Award for the very best punter after he had the most punts downed inside the 20(22 )of any punter in the country. NC State’s Christopher Dunn won the Lou Groza Award for best place-kicker.