{"id":261879,"date":"2025-08-04T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261879\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:09:11","slug":"diego-pavia-and-eli-stowers-named-to-walter-camp-award-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261879\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Pavia and Eli Stowers Named to Walter Camp Award Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Vanderbilt\u2019s stars on the offensive side of the ball were named to the 2025 Walter Camp Award watch list \u2013 QB Diego Pavia and TE Eli Stowers. The Walter Camp Player of the Year Award is presented annually to the, you guessed it, most outstanding player in college football. Recent winners include<\/p>\n<p>CB\/WR Travis Hunter (2024)<br \/>QB Jayden Daniels (2023)<br \/>QB Caleb Williams (2022)<br \/>RB Kenneth Walker III (2021)<br \/>WR DeVonta Smith (2020)<br \/>QB Joe Burrow (2019)<\/p>\n<p>This is the second national award watch list that has included Diego Pavia, the other being the Maxwell Award. Pavia accounted for over 3,000 yards of total offense and 28 touchdowns for the Commodores last season.<\/p>\n<p>Tight End Eli Stowers was also deservedly named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award watch list. Widely considered one of the best TEs in the country, Stowers caught 49 passes for 638 yards and 5 TDs last season in black and gold. The Pavia\u2013Stowers connection looks poised to take a step forward statistically in 2025 if Vanderbilt is able to find additional threats out of the backfield and on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>46 total players were named to the watch list<\/p>\n<p>Drew Allar, QB, Penn State<br \/>Luke Altmyer, QB, Illinois<br \/>Carson Beck, QB, Miami<br \/>Vaughn Blue, RB, Liberty<br \/>Braylon Braxton, QB, Southern Miss<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Brown, RB, Louisville<br \/>Byrum Brown, QB, South Florida<br \/>Demond Claiborne, RB, Wake Forest<br \/>Jalon Daniels, QB, Kansas<br \/>Caleb Downs, DB, Ohio State<\/p>\n<p>Dequan Finn, QB, Miami Ohio<br \/>Anthony Hankerson, RB, Oregon State<br \/>Jamal Haynes, RB, Georgia Tech<br \/>Al-Jay Henderson, RB, Buffalo<br \/>Jason Henderson, LB, Old Dominion<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Hill, Jr., LB, Texas<br \/>Blake Horvath, QB, Navy<br \/>Makhi Hughes, RB, Oregon<br \/>Nico Iamaleava, QB, UCLA<br \/>Keyone Jenkins, QB, FIU<br \/>Mikail Kamara, Edge, Indiana<\/p>\n<p>Cade Klubnik, QB, Clemson<br \/>DJ Lagway, QB, Florida<br \/>Sam Leavitt, QB, Arizona State<br \/>Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame<br \/>Kyle Louis, LB, Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>Maddux Madsen, QB, Boise State<br \/>Arch Manning, QB, Texas<br \/>John Mateer, QB, Oklahoma<br \/>Dante Moore, QB, Oregon<br \/>Parker Navarro, QB, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Nussmeier, QB, LSU<br \/>Diego Pavia, QB, Vanderbilt<br \/>Koi Perich, WR\/DB, Minnesota<br \/>Kaidon Salter, QB, Colorado<br \/>LaNorris Sellars, QB, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Colin Simmons, Texas<br \/>Nicholas Singleton, RB, Penn State<br \/>Jeremiah Smith, WR, Ohio State<br \/>Dylan Stewart, Edge, South Carolina<br \/>Eli Stowers, TE, Vanderbilt<br \/>Jai Den Thomas, RB, UNLV<\/p>\n<p>Jordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State<br \/>Jaheim White, RB, West Virginia<br \/>Ryan Williams, WR, Alabama<br \/>Peter Woods, DL, Clemson<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/waltercamp.org\/forty-six-players-named-to-2025-walter-camp-player-of-year-watch-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Walter Camp Award <\/a>will be announced during ESPN\u2019s College Football Awards show on December 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Vanderbilt\u2019s stars on the offensive side of the ball were named to the 2025 Walter Camp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7491,7,49,48,2286,7205,28752,51508],"class_list":{"0":"post-261879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-diego-pavia","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-vanderbilt","13":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores","14":"tag-vanderbilt-football","15":"tag-walter-camp-award"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114972312504227089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}