QB Williams wins Walter Camp, Maxwell awards

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  • Paolo UggettiESPN

USC backmost Caleb Williams headlined the 2022 College Football Awards connected Thursday arsenic helium was named the Walter Camp Player of the Year and the victor of the Maxwell Award, fixed to the champion all-around subordinate successful assemblage football.

Williams, who is the archetypal USC subordinate since moving backmost Marcus Allen successful 1981 to triumph the Maxwell, accounted for 47 full touchdowns portion throwing for 4,075 yards and starring USC to an 11-2 play a twelvemonth aft the Trojans went 4-8.

While Williams won some the Maxwell and Walter Camp awards, chap Heisman Trophy finalist Max Duggan received the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback of the Year award. Duggan threw for 3,725 full yards and accounted for 36 touchdowns for TCU this season.

The Horned Frogs took location aggregate awards connected the night. Safety Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson received the Jim Thorpe award, fixed to the apical antiaircraft backmost successful the sport. Sonny Dykes, having led TCU to an undefeated regular play and a College Football Playoff quality successful his archetypal year, was named the Home Depot Coach of the Year and won the Walter Camp National Coach of the Year Award.

Also successful his archetypal play connected the job, TCU violative coordinator Garrett Riley received the Broyles Award for adjunct manager of the year. Riley, the member of USC manager Lincoln Riley, was the manager down the Horned Frogs' explosive twelvemonth connected discourtesy led by Duggan.

For the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, Alabama's Will Anderson Jr. won the Nagurski award. He besides won the Chuck Bednarik Award connected Thursday. Both are fixed to the champion antiaircraft player.

The Outland Trophy for the nation's champion interior lineman was won by Michigan halfway Olusegun Oluwatimi, the archetypal Wolverine to ever triumph the award. Oluwatimi besides won the Rimington Trophy, fixed to the sport's champion center.

Georgia's Brock Bowers became the archetypal Bulldog to triumph the John Mackey Award for champion choky end. Bowers averaged 14 yards a drawback this play and added six touchdowns.

Tennessee's Jalin Hyatt received the Biletnikoff Award, fixed to the champion wide receiver -- the archetypal clip a Vols subordinate has won the honor. Hyatt, who had 1,267 receiving yards, 15 touchdowns and six catches of 55 yards oregon much this season, bushed retired Ohio State's Marvin Harrison Jr.

Though helium did not ace the Heisman finalists list, Texas' Bijan Robinson did triumph the Doak Walker Award for the champion moving backmost successful assemblage football. Robinson averaged implicit six yards per transportation and implicit 130 rushing yards per game, totaling 18 touchdowns.

Florida State lineman Dillan Gibbons was awarded the Wuerffel Trophy, fixed to the assemblage shot subordinate who combines assemblage work with world and diversion achievement.

Iowa's Jack Campbell took location the Dick Butkus Award for the apical linebacker. Campbell led the Hawkeyes' defence and finished his play with 115 full tackles -- bully for 13th successful the nation. Over the weekend, Campbell besides won the National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy, which honors a assemblage shot subordinate who exhibited a operation of "academic success, shot show and exemplary leadership."

Georgia's Stetson Bennett won the Burlsworth Trophy, fixed to the sport's astir outstanding subordinate who began his vocation arsenic a walk-on. Bennett, who led Georgia to a nationalist rubric past play and volition person a accidental to repetition this season, is besides 1 of the Heisman finalists for 2022.

Rutgers's Adam Korsak won the Ray Guy Award for the champion punter aft helium had the astir punts downed wrong the 20 (22) of immoderate punter successful the nation. NC State's Christopher Dunn won the Lou Groza Award for champion place-kicker.

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