When a team returns 15 starters including most of its impact players, it's no surprise many of its veterans will be tracked nationally in the following season.
With the Walter Camp Award Watch List being the last national awards watch list to be released Friday, nine ASU players are featured in 14 watch lists.
Redshirt senior defensive tackle Will Sutton, a reigning consensus First-Team All-American, boasts the most watch list appearances at six, most notably for the Walter Camp Award Player of the Year Award. Redshirt junior linebacker Carl Bradford has the second-most at three.
Watch lists inform voters which players around the nation to follow throughout the season. Each list is trimmed to semifinalists and finalists in the latter half of the regular season. Sutton was a semifinalist for the Bednarik Award in 2012.
Walter Camp Award (Player of the Year) Will Sutton
Doak Walker Award (most outstanding running back) D.J. Foster Marion Grice
Davey O’Brien Award (most outstanding quarterback) Taylor Kelly
Dick Butkus Award (most outstanding linebacker) Carl Bradford Chris Young
Lombardi Award (nation’s most outstanding down lineman) Will Sutton
Jim Thorpe Award (most outstanding defensive back) Alden Darby
Outland Trophy (most outstanding interior lineman) Will Sutton
Bronko Nagurski Trophy (defensive player of the year) Carl Bradford Will Sutton
John Mackey Award (most outstanding tight end) Chris Coyle
Maxwell Award (most outstanding player) Marion Grice Taylor Kelly Will Sutton
Chuck Bednarik Award (most outstanding defensive player) Carl Bradford Will Sutton
Paul Hornung Award (most versatile player) D.J. Foster
Rimington Award (nation's top center) Kody Koebensky
Lott IMPACT Trophy (positive influence both on and off the field) Alden Darby
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