Jackson Adds Walter Camp Player Award to His Collection
December 08, 2016 | Football
Sophomore quarterback also named a first-team All-American.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson has been selected as the 2016 Walter Camp Player of the Year, which was announced during ESPN's 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter.
Earlier in the afternoon, the decorated sophomore was tabbed the ACC head coaches as the league's Player and Offensive Player of the Year.
Jackson, who is the school's first recipient of the award, also was tabbed a first-team Walter Camp All-American, the first since safety Gerod Holliman earned recognition in 2014.
Guiding the nation's top scoring offense, Jackson finished the regular season holding ACC and school records with 51 touchdowns responsible for (30 passing, 21 rushing), rushing yards by a quarterback with 1,538, and rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 21. He tied an ACC mark with eight touchdowns in the season-opening win over Charlotte, including matching a school mark with six touchdown passes.
A finalist for the Maxwell, Manning, and O'Brien awards, Jackson shattered Louisville's single-season record for rushing yards in a season, and his eight 100-yard rushing games also broke a school mark.
The Pompano Beach, Fla., native, Jackson has passed for 3,390 yards and 30 touchdowns and is two scores shy of breaking Teddy Bridgewater's single-season mark. Jackson totaled a pair of 400-yard passing games this season, including a career-best 417 yards in a win on the road at Marshall on Sept. 24, and 411 yards in a victory at Syracuse on Sept. 9.
He amassed an ACC-record 610 total yards in a win over Syracuse, a game in which he came within one rushing yard of becoming the first player in FBS history to run for 400 yards and pass for 200 yards in the same game.
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 - 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. Visit http://www.waltercamp.org for more information.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards.
The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. Visit http://www.ncfaa.org.
The Walter Camp All-America teams are selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the 129 FBS schools and certified by Marcum LLP, a New Haven-based accounting firm. This is the 126th edition of the Walter Camp All-America team - the nation's oldest All-America team.
The Cardinals will return to action on Dec. 31 in the 2016 Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl against LSU in Orlando, Fla., at 11 a.m. ET.
