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Oklahoma football: Eleven Sooners up for 10 individual national awards

By Chip Rouse

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 09: Baker Mayfield, quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners, poses for the media after the 2017 Heisman Trophy Presentation at the Marriott Marquis December 9, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 09: Baker Mayfield, quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners, poses for the media after the 2017 Heisman Trophy Presentation at the Marriott Marquis December 9, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) /
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The month of July is when most of the individual national award sponsors reveal their preseason candidate lists, and their us usually a good representation of Oklahoma football players.

This year is no exception. Eleven different Sooners are named to the preseason watch lists for 10 national awards.

The biggest and best of the individual awards is the Heisman Trophy. The candidate list for that coveted individual honor evolves as the college football season progresses. There are no Sooners on the short list of preseason Heisman candidates at this early stage, but Oklahoma does have the reigning Heisman winner in Baker Mayfield, and three Sooner players have captured college football’s most prestigious award three times in the past 14 seasons.

Preseason watch list have been announced for at least 15 individual awards. Oklahoma is represented in nine of them.

Here is a complete recap to date of the 2018 award watch lists that include a Sooner player:

Maxwell Award (Best all-around player in college football)

QB Kyler  Murray

RB Rodney Anderson

(3 previous Oklahoma winners: Tommy McDonald, Jason White, Baker Mayfield)

Walter Camp Award (College football player of the year)

RB Rodney Anderson

(4 previous Oklahoma winners: Steve Owens, Billy Sims, Josh Heupel, Baker Mayfield)

Doak Walker Award (Top running back in college football)

RB Rodney Anderson

(No previous Oklahoma winners)

Biletnikoff Award (Most outstanding receiver in college football)

WR Marquise “Hollywood” Brown

WR CeeDee Lamb

(1 previous Oklahoma winner: Dede Westbrook)

John Mackey Award (Most outstanding tight end in college football

TE Grant Calcaterra

(1 previous Oklahoma winner: Mark Andrews)

Outland Trophy (Best college football interior lineman)

OL Dru Samia

OL Ben Powers

OL Bobby Evans

(4 previous Oklahoma winners: J.D. Roberts, Lee Roy Selmon, Greg Roberts, Jammal Brown)

Rimington Trophy (Best center in college football)

C Jonathan Alvarez

(No previous Oklahoma winners)

Butkus Award (Top linebacker in college football)

LB Caleb Kelly

(4 previous Oklahoma winners: Brian Bosworth twice, Rocky Calmus, Teddy Lehman)

Lou Groza Award (Top college football placekicker)

K Austin Seibert

(No previous Oklahoma winners)

Ray Guy Award (Most outstanding punter in college football)

P Auston Seibert

(No previous Oklahoma winners)

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