{"id":62134,"date":"2024-08-06T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=62134"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:24:39","slug":"62134-fifteen-acc-running-backs-make-the-doak-walker-award-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2024\/08\/06\/62134-fifteen-acc-running-backs-make-the-doak-walker-award-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen ACC Running Backs Make the Doak Walker Award List"},"content":{"rendered":"

We head to another day of college football pre-season watch lists. Today it is for the best running back in the country. Fifteen ACC running backs make the Doak Walker Award list as part of a massive overall list of candidates.<\/p>\n

The ACC Candidates<\/h3>\n

Virginia and Florida State are the only ACC members that are not represented on the pre-season watch list. The ACC candidates are:<\/p>\n

Kye Robichaux, Boston College<\/p>\n

Jaydn Ott, Cal<\/p>\n

Phil Mafah, Clemson<\/p>\n

Jaquez Moore, Duke<\/p>\n

Jamal Haynes, Georgia Tech<\/p>\n

Donald Chaney, Louisville<\/p>\n

Damien Martinez, Miami<\/p>\n

Omarion Hampton, North Carolina<\/p>\n

Jordan Waters, NC State<\/p>\n

Rodney Hammond Jr., Pitt<\/p>\n

Jaylan Knighton, SMU<\/p>\n

Ryan Butler, Stanford<\/p>\n

LeQuint Allen, Syracuse<\/p>\n

Bhayshul Tuten, Virginia Tech<\/p>\n

Demond Claiborne, Wake Forest<\/p>\n

The Others<\/h3>\n

The total list has 88 running backs on it, including last year\u2019s winner, Ollie Gordon, II from Oklahoma State. The 2024 watch list also features 2023 Award finalist Omarion Hampton and 2023 semifinalists Tajh Brooks, Marcus Carroll, R.J. Harvey, and Damien Martinez. The entire list can be seen here<\/a>. North Carolina\u2019s Hampton and Cal\u2019s Ott have also appeared on other pre-season watch lists over the last nine days as candidates for national player of the year awards.<\/p>\n

The Logistics<\/h3>\n

The PwC SMU Athletic Forum Board of Directors, which manages the award, will name 10 semifinalists in mid-November. Three finalists will be chosen by the Doak Walker Award National Selection Committee, and they will also be announced in November. The committee will then cast a second vote in December to determine the recipient. The winner will be announced at the Home Depot Awards Show in mid-December.<\/p>\n

The National Selection Committee consists of past recipients, former NFL All-Pro and college All-America running backs, media members, and selected special representatives.<\/p>\n

There is also weekly recognition throughout the season. The PwC SMU Athletic Forum announces a Doak Walker National Running Back of the Week.<\/p>\n

There are three more pre-season watch lists to be unveiled this week<\/a>. The Bednarik Award, (Defensive Player of the Year as chosen by the Maxwell Football Club), will be issued next Monday. The Butkus Award, which goes to the best linebacker in the country, is scheduled to have its pre-season watch list released next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We head to another day of college football pre-season watch lists. Today it is for the best running back in the country. Fifteen ACC running backs make the Doak Walker Award list as part of a massive overall list of candidates. The ACC Candidates Virginia and Florida State are the only ACC members that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":62137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[102,493,465,36,3331,3454,101,256,306,100,1249],"class_list":["post-62134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-acc","tag-acc","tag-awards","tag-boston-college-eagles","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-doak-walker-award","tag-north-carolina-state-wolfpack","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-pitt-panthers","tag-syracuse-orange","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82222,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62134\/revisions\/82222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}