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NEW HAVEN, Conn.— Graduate student quarterback Parker Navarro represents Ohio on the Walter Camp 2025 Player of Year Preseason Watch List, as announced by The Walter Camp Football Foundation today (Aug. 4). The forty-five "players to watch" list is for the foundation's 2025 Player of the Year award, the nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade, and presented by Crabtree Lexus of New Haven.
 
Navarro (Tempe, Ariz) made 13 starts during the 2024 campaign, tallying 2,423 passing yards on 295 passes with 195 completions. Also a force to be reckoned with on the ground, he rushed for 1,054 yards on 160 attempts with 18 touchdowns, becoming the second quarterback in program history to log over 1,000 yards on the ground in a single season as well as the first quarterback to record over 2,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season. A four-time 2024 Mid-American Conference Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 30, Nov. 15, Nov. 25, Dec. 2), Navarro also earned Davey O'Brien Great 8 recognition twice (Dec. 2 and Jan. 22), All-MAC Second Team Offense accolades and was named both the MAC Championship Offensive Player of the Game and 2024 StaffDNA Cure Bowl MVP honors.  
 
The 2025 watch list includes 38 offensive players (21 quarterbacks, 11 running backs, five receivers/tight ends and one two-way player) along with eight from the defensive side of the
ball. Players from 37 different schools representing 11 conferences (including independents) are represented on the preseason watch list. Texas has three players on the watch list, while six schools (Arizona State, Clemson, Ohio State, Penn State, South Carolina and Vanderbilt) each have two.
 
"We are proud to continue the great work of Walter Camp and recognize the best college
football players in the nation," Foundation president John Barbarotta said. "This watch list is a great start to what is shaping up to be another exciting year of college football."
 
Former Colorado wide receiver/defensive back and current Jacksonville Jaguar Travis Hunter was the 2024 Walter Camp Player of the Year. Hunter was also the first player to be named a Walter Camp First Team All-American on both sides of the ball.
 
The 2025 Player of Year watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in early November, and three finalists will be announced in early December. The 2025 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 133 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on ESPN's College Football Awards Show on December 12.
 
Earlier this summer, the Foundation announced its 2025 preseason All-American teams. Walter Camp is the nation's oldest and most prestigious collegiate football All-America team and was first selected in 1889.
 
Considered the "Father of American Football," Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries, and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Visit www.waltercamp.org for more information.
 
The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses college football's most prestigious awards. The NCFAA's 25 awards have honored more than 950 recipients since 1935. Visit NCFAA.org for more information.
 
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