Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
Ferguson on Rotary Lombardi Watch List
8/1/2022 3:00:00 PM | Football
Houston, TX (August 1, 2022) - The Rotary Lombardi Award®, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Houston, is pleased to announce the 77 players who will compete for this year's coveted award and Middle Tennessee's Jordan Ferguson is among the elite group.
The Rotary Lombardi Award® goes annually to the college football offensive or defensive lineman, who in addition to outstanding performance and ability, best exemplifies the character and discipline of NFL Hall of Fame Head Coach Vince Lombardi.
Ferguson, who has been on everyone's C-USA preseason first team this summer, is coming off an incredible season on and off the field. Ferguson ended 2021 with new career marks in tackles (58), tackles for loss (16.5), sacks (9.0), hurries (14), forced fumbles (3) and fumble recoveries (2). The second team all-conference pick ranked 22nd nationally in tackles for loss.
Along with the Lombardi Award, Ferguson has been named to the Bednarik, Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, the C-USA Preseason Watch List, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, and the Shrine Bowl 1000 List.
This year's watch list is filled with talent from a multitude of schools and conferences, which should make for an exciting voting process. To be considered for the Rotary Lombardi Award®, players must be a NCAA FBS College Football team member and meet the following qualifications:
The voting process will follow this schedule.
A mid-season watch list will be released on Oct 15 to reflect any updates to the current list.
The 2022 Rotary Lombardi Award® watchlist is compiled by a subcommittee of the Rotary Lombardi Award® committee and included SID submissions. Players were selected based on their past performance and expectations for the upcoming 2022 college football season. To be considered for the watchlist, players must also have started at least one game at an NCAA Division 1 college or university.
By Conference: Big Ten (11), SEC (11), Big 12 (10), ACC (8), Independents (8), Pac-12 (8), C-USA (6), Sun Belt (6), American (4), Mountain West (3), Mid-American (2).
The Rotary Lombardi Award® goes annually to the college football offensive or defensive lineman, who in addition to outstanding performance and ability, best exemplifies the character and discipline of NFL Hall of Fame Head Coach Vince Lombardi.
Ferguson, who has been on everyone's C-USA preseason first team this summer, is coming off an incredible season on and off the field. Ferguson ended 2021 with new career marks in tackles (58), tackles for loss (16.5), sacks (9.0), hurries (14), forced fumbles (3) and fumble recoveries (2). The second team all-conference pick ranked 22nd nationally in tackles for loss.
Along with the Lombardi Award, Ferguson has been named to the Bednarik, Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, the C-USA Preseason Watch List, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, and the Shrine Bowl 1000 List.
This year's watch list is filled with talent from a multitude of schools and conferences, which should make for an exciting voting process. To be considered for the Rotary Lombardi Award®, players must be a NCAA FBS College Football team member and meet the following qualifications:
- Be a down Lineman, end to end, either on offense or defense, setting up no further than ten (10) yards to the left or right of the ball at the time of the snap.
- Be a Linebacker on defense, setting up no further than five (5) yards deep from the line of scrimmage.
- Must not come out of the offensive backfield and set up on the line of scrimmage as a Blocker or a Receiver or listed in the program as an Offensive Back or Receiver.
- Be eligible to participate in the current season.
The voting process will follow this schedule.
- November 1 – 8, 2022: Vote to determine Semi-finalists
- November 10, 2022: Semi-finalists announcement
- November 11 – 21, 2022: Vote to determine Four Finalists
- November 23, 2022: Four Finalists announcement
- November 23 – December 5, 2022: Final vote to determine winner
- December 7, 2022: Rotary Lombardi Award® Winner announced
A mid-season watch list will be released on Oct 15 to reflect any updates to the current list.
The 2022 Rotary Lombardi Award® watchlist is compiled by a subcommittee of the Rotary Lombardi Award® committee and included SID submissions. Players were selected based on their past performance and expectations for the upcoming 2022 college football season. To be considered for the watchlist, players must also have started at least one game at an NCAA Division 1 college or university.
By Conference: Big Ten (11), SEC (11), Big 12 (10), ACC (8), Independents (8), Pac-12 (8), C-USA (6), Sun Belt (6), American (4), Mountain West (3), Mid-American (2).
Players Mentioned
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