UCF Knights Quarterback John Rhys Plumlee Amongst Gamers on Davey O’Brien Award Watch Listing

handed for two,586 yds and 14 TDs in first season with the Knights in 2022

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – UCF soccer quarterback John Rhys Plumlee has been named to the Davey O’Brien Award Watch Listing, offered yearly to one of the best quarterback participant in faculty soccer, the group introduced on Tuesday.

The Davey O’Brien Nationwide Quarterback Award is the oldest and most prestigious nationwide quarterback award. The forty seventh Annual Davey O’Brien Awards Dinner honoring the winner shall be held Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, at The Fort Price Membership in Fort Price, Texas.

Plumlee was tabbed a second-team American Athletic All-Convention choice final 12 months and garnered AAC Offensive Participant of the Week thrice. He handed for two,586 yards and 14 TDs in his first season with the Knights in 2022.

Moreover, he led all FBS quarterbacks in speeding yards with 861, scoring 11 TDs on the bottom to compile the second most speeding TDs by a quarterback in UCF single-season historical past behind Daunte Culpepper’s 12 in 1998. Plumlee ranked fourth within the convention in speeding yards per sport with 66.2 and helped UCF rank ninth nationally in speeding (228.3).

He turned in one among his finest performances of the season in opposition to Temple when he accomplished 18 of twenty-two passes for a career-high 373 yards and 4 passing TDs and ran seven occasions for 37 yards and three TDs. The Hattiesburg, Mississippi, native tied the 35-year outdated UCF document for touchdowns accounted for with seven.

The official Davey O’Brien Midseason Watch Listing shall be launched on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and can include all energetic quarterbacks from the Preseason Watch Listing, all gamers honored as a weekly Nice 8 recipient by means of the season’s first seven weeks and any further quarterbacks accepted by the choice subcommittee.

The Midseason Watch Listing will then be pared right down to the 35-player Davey O’Brien QB Class of 2023 on Tuesday, Oct. 24. Fan voting on social media (Fb, Instagram and Twitter) will once more play a task within the semifinalist, finalist and winner voting totals when mixed with the nationwide choice committee’s ballots. Voting will start on Oct. 24.

The checklist of semifinalists chosen from the QB Class shall be named on Tuesday, Nov. 7. The Basis will announce the three finalists two weeks later (Tuesday, Nov. 21). The 2023 Davey O’Brien Award winner shall be unveiled stay on ESPN on Thursday, Dec. 7, throughout The Residence Depot Faculty Soccer Awards.

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