Ahead of the 2025 college football season, LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier and Caden Durham were named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award
Given to the top offensive player in college football, the Maxwell Award last went to an LSU player in 2019 when Joe Burrow took it home. He is the Tigers’ lone recipient and won it after leading them to the national championship.
Nussmeier and Durham each enter their second seasons as full-time starters in Baton Rouge. Both earned AP preseason All-SEC second-team in July.
Nussmeier, entering his fifth season of college football, threw for 4,052 yards and 29 touchdowns in 2024. He begins his second season as the starter this year and is under 4,000 yards away from becoming the program’s all-time leading passer. He used the offseason to build chemistry with a slew of new receivers and working on different parts of his game.
Coming off an All-SEC freshman season, Durham finished with 1,013 total yards and averaged 9.3 yards per carry in 2024. He developed into a versatile weapon and will be the feature back in 2025 to balance out an improved passing game.
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Publish date : 2025-07-29 13:08:00
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