Good lord, we've only hit Day No. 2 of watch list season. Feels like we've been doing this for weeks already. Today's admissions: the Mackey tight end award and the Rimington center award. This will probably be the least widely exciting news item of the entire period. It only gets more thrilling from here, unless if you're on these lists. They're really long, so maybe.
First up, the Mackey:
- Alex Bayer, Bowling Green
- Ted Bolser, Indiana
- Chase Clement, LSU
- Jack Doyle, Western Kentucky
- Tyler Eifert, Notre Dame
- Gavin Escobar, San Diego State
- Joseph Fauria, UCLA
- C.J. Fiedorowicz, Iowa
- Brandon Ford, Clemson
- Matt Furstenburg, Maryland
- Crockett Gillmore, Colorado State
- Chris Gragg, Arkansas
- Hubie Graham, Pittsburgh
- Ryan Griffin, Connecticut
- Chase Harper, Texas State
- Garrett Hoskins, Eastern Michigan
- Malcolm Johnson, Mississippi State
- Phil Lutzenkirchen, Auburn
- Jordan Najvar, Baylor
- Ryan Otten, San Jose State
- Chris Pantale, Boston College
- Jacob Pedersen, Wisconsin
- Mike Ragone, Kansas
- Kyler Reed, Nebraska
- Lucas Reed, New Mexico
- Jordan Reed, Florida
- Mychal Rivera, Tennessee
- Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Washington
- Dion Sims, Michigan State
- Jake Stoneburner, Ohio State
- Levine Toilolo, Stanford
- Michael Williams, Alabama
- Luke Willson, Rice
And the Rimington:
- Eloy Atkinson, UTEP
- Mario Benavides, Louisville
- Nick Carlson, Wyoming
- Braxston Cave, Notre Dame
- Reese Dismukes, Auburn
- Trent Dupy, Tulsa
- Dillon Farrell, New Mexico
- James Ferentz, Iowa
- Jay Finch, Georgia Tech
- B.J. Finney, Kansas State
- Travis Frederick, Wisconsin
- Dalton Freeman, Clemson
- James Fry, TCU
- Kevin Galeher, Western Michigan
- Hroniss Grasu, Oregon
- Ben Habern, Oklahoma
- Gus Handler, Colorado
- Jonotthan Harrison, Florida
- Khaled Holmes, USC
- Andre Huval, Louisiana
- Alec Johnson, San Diego State
- T.J. Johnson, South Carolina
- Barrett Jones, Alabama
- Zac Kerin, Toledo
- Tyler Larsen, Utah State
- Patrick Lewis, Texas A&M
- P.J. Lonergan, LSU
- Macky MacPherson, Syracuse
- Joe Madsen, West Virginia
- Mike Marboe, Idaho
- Will Matte, Indiana
- Blake McJunkin, SMU
- Andrew Miller, Virginia Tech
- Brian Moore, Duke
- Graham Pocic, Illinois
- Ryan Powis, Army
- Austin Quattrochi, Southern Miss
- Jordan Rae, UCF
- Weston Richburg, Colorado State
- Sam Schwartzstein, Stanford
- Matt Smith, Kentucky
- Matt Stankiewitch, Penn State
- Tevita Stevens, Utah
- Travis Swanson, Arkansas
- Evan Swindall, Ole Miss
- Ryan Turnley, Pittsburgh
- Brandon Vitabile, Northwestern
- Stephen Warner, Louisiana Tech
- Robert Waterman, UNLV
- Camden Wentz, N.C. State