Locker on O’Brien Award watch list
Published 9:16 pm Thursday, July 17, 2008
Huskies quarterback Jake Locker is one of 31 quarterbacks on the watch list for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, which came out today.
The O’Brien is given each year to college football’s top quarterback. Semifinalists for the award will be named on Oct. 27, and finalists on Nov. 24.
Locker is one of four Pac-10 quarterbacks on the list along with Arizona State’s Rudy Carpenter, USC’s Mark Sanchez, Arizona’s Willie Tuitama.
In yet another measure of how hard the UW’s schedule is this season, the Huskies will also see O’Brien candidates in all three of their non-conference games (Sam Bradford, Oklahoma, Max Hall, BYU, and Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame).
Here’s the full list:
Todd Boeckman SR Ohio State
Sam Bradford SO Oklahoma
Tom Brandstater SR Fresno State
Hunter Cantwell SR Louisville
Rudy Carpenter SR Arizona State
Jimmy Clausen SO Notre Dame
Chase Clement SR Rice
Chase Daniel SR Missouri
Sean Glennon SR Virginia Tech
Matt Grothe JR South Florida
Max Hall JR BYU
Cullen Harper SR Clemson
Graham Harrell SR Texas Tech
Chase Holbrook SR New Mexico State
Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada SR Navy
Dan LeFevour JR Central Michigan
Jake Locker JR Washington
Colt McCoy JR Texas
Curtis Painter SR Purdue
Todd Reesing JR Kansas
Mark Sanchez JR USC
Riley Skinner JR Wake Forest
Rusty Smith JR Florida Atlantic
Matthew Stafford JR Georgia
Tim Tebow JR Florida
Mike Teel SR Rutgers
Willie Tuitama SR Arizona
Drew Weatherford SR Florida State
Pat White SR West Virginia
Juice Williams JR Illinois
John Parker Wilson SR Alabama
