Two of Penn State football’s best players have been named to the Maxwell Award Watchlist.
Early Monday afternoon, Maxwell Football announced its first watchlist of the 2024 season.
Penn State’s QB Drew Allar, and RB Nicholas Singleton, are each on the list.
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Allar is coming off his first season as Penn State’s starting QB. There was plenty of good to take from Year 1. Allar had an excellent TD/INT ratio of 25 to 2 and won 10 of his 13 starts. But for Allar and Penn State to take the next step, the former five-star from Medina, Ohio must be better in PSU’s biggest games.
In Penn State’s two regular-season losses— to Michigan and Ohio State, respectively— Allar combined to go 28-for-62 with two touchdowns, both late in the fourth quarter when the outcome was all but sealed.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.Like Allar, Singleton came to Penn State as a five-star in the celebrated Class of 2022.
Singleton electrified as a true freshman, ending the season with 1,061 yards, 12 touchdowns and a 6.8 yards per carry average. The signature play of Singleton’s first season was this 87-yard touchdown run in the Rose Bowl, the third-longest in the history of the great game.
But reason or another, Singleton’s production dipped last season. He ended 2023 with 409 fewer yards, four fewer touchdowns and 2.4 fewer yards per carry despite running the ball 15 more times. Singleton did put up better numbers in the receiving game, with 26 receptions (up from 11 the year before), 308 yards (up from 85) and 11.8 yards per catch (up from 7.7.) But running the ball is what Singleton’s known for, and many Penn State pundits and fans alike didn’t feel he did that well enough in 2023.
When Singleton and classmate Kaytron Allen at at their best, they make up on of American’s best backfield tandems.
The Maxwell Award has been presented annually since 1937. Seven Penn State players have won the award, with Larry Johnson being the most recent to do so in 2002.
