More Preseason Love For Steven Montez

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – University of Colorado quarterback Steven Montez has been named to a second preseason watch list for a national award that honors the collegiate player of the year.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation named 50 players to its 2018 Player of the Year award watch list and Montez was among the group. The award is the nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.

There are 38 offensive players (17 quarterbacks, 15 running backs and six receivers/tight ends) on the list along with 12 from the defensive side of the ball. Five of them are from the Pac-12 with Washington QB Jake Browning, Husky RB Myles Gaskin, Stanford RB Bryce Love and Arizona QB Khalil Tate joining Montez on the preseason watch list.

"We are proud to continue the great work of Walter Camp and recognize the best college football players in the nation," Foundation president Michael Madera said. "This watch list is a great start to what is shaping up to be another exciting year of college football."

The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in mid-November. The 2018 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 129 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced live on ESPN on Thursday, Dec. 6. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's 52nd annual national awards banquet on Jan. 12, 2019 in New Haven, Conn.

Back on July 16, Montez was named to the 82nd annual Maxwell Award preseason watch list for its award has been given to America's College Player of the Year since 1937. The Walter Camp Trophy was first awarded in 1967.

A 2017 honorable mention All-Pac-12 selection by the league's coaches, he threw for 2,975 yards last season, narrowly missing what would have been just the third 3,000-yard passing season in Colorado history. He set several CU records last fall, including the most consecutive pass attempts without being intercepted (172), consecutive 300-yard passing games (three) and most games with over 400 yards of total offense in a season (three).

In 1994, CU running back Rashaan Salaam was named the winner of the Walter Camp Trophy and in 2002 Chris Brown was one of 10 semifinalists for the award.

About Walter Camp And The Walter Camp Foundation
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (www.waltercamp.org; @WalterCampFF) – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.

The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses college football's most prestigious awards. Founded in 1997, the NCFAA and its 23 awards now boast over 800 recipients, dating to 1935. Visit ncfaa.org to learn more about our story. The members of the NCFAA unveiled their preseason watch lists over a 10-day period (July 16-27). Sixteen of the association's 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA has spearheaded a coordinated effort to promote each award's preseason candidates.

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Steven Montez

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