Flowers Named to Manning Award List, Now on Five National Award Watch Lists
TAMPA, AUG. 19, 2017 – Senior quarterback
Quinton Flowers (Miami) has added a fifth national award watch list to his growing resume as he has been named to the Manning Award Watch List.
Flowers is the first Bull ever named to five preseason national award watch lists, having also been named to watch lists for the Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O'Brien, and Johnny Unitas awards. The Manning Award, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, includes 30 of the top quarterbacks in the nation heading into the 2017 season. The winner will be selected by a voting panel, which includes national media and each of the Mannings, after the bowls.
USF, which was selected the favorite to win the American Athletic Conference by conference media and ranked No. 21 in the Preseason Amway Coaches Poll, now has eight Bulls named to 14 national award watch lists.
Flowers, the 2016 American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year, is one of two players from The American named to the Manning list, joining Memphis quarterback Riley Ferguson. He and Florida State's Deondre Francois are the only players competing for universities in the state of Florida named to the Manning watch list. Flowers and Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson were the only two players in FBS football to amass more than 1,500 yards rushing and 2,000 yards passing last season.
USF's eight players on 14 national award watch lists are: senior quarterback
Quinton Flowers (Maxwell, Walter Camp, Manning, O'Brien & Unitas), senior punter
Jonathan Hernandez (Ray Guy), senior running back
D'Ernest Johson (Hornung), senior cornerback
Deatrick Nichols (Bednarik, Nagurski & Thorpe), senior center
Cameron Ruff (Rimington), senior linebacker
Auggie Sanchez (Nagurski & Wuerffel), senior defensive lineman
Deadrin Senat (Nagurski & Outland) and sophomore tight end
Mitchell Wilcox (Mackey).
Flowers heads into his senior season among seven starters returning from a school-record shattering 2016 USF offense that ranked fourth in the nation scoring 43.8 points per game and 11
th with 511.5 yards per game. Flowers set USF season records rushing for 1,530 yards and 18 touchdowns, accounting for 4,342 total yards and logging 42 total touchdowns. He completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 2,812 yards and 24 touchdowns against just eight interceptions. He ranked 10
th in the nation in total offense per game (334.0 ypg) in 2016. He joined 2016 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award winner Lamar Jackson (Louisville) as the only two players in college football to throw for over 2,000 yards and run for over 1,500 yards last year, with Flowers becoming the first player in state of Florida FBS history to break the 2,000/1,000 marks.
ABOUT THE AWARD
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates' bowl performances in its balloting. The list of 10 finalists will be released on Thursday, November 30. The winner will be announced in the week following the College Football Playoff National Championship.
ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
USF finished the 2016 season ranked No. 19 in the Associated Press poll with a school-record 11 wins following the program's fifth-ever bowl victory in the Birmingham Bowl. The Bulls' 11-2 record marked the fifth-best winning percentage in FBS football in 2016 and one of just 11 teams to reach 11 wins. USF set nearly 40 team and individual records in 2016, including team records for total yards (6,650), rushing yards (3,714), touchdowns (77) and scoring (569). Junior quarterback Quinton Flowers was named the American Conference Offensive Player of the Year and led a school-record 10 players named to the all-conference team, six of which, including Flowers, will return in 2017.
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