Unitas Award List
Latest For Sorensen
CEDAR CITY, Aug. 8 - Add the Unitas Award Watch List to
Southern Utah University quarterback Brad Sorensen's list of 2012 preseason
accolades.
The 6-foot-5, 235-pound senior from Grand Terrace, Calif.,
was named to the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award list this week. He is one of 29
candidates for the award and the only candidate from the NCAA Football
Championship Subdivision. The other 28 candidates are from Bowl Subdivision
schools.
Sorensen has already been named a preseason first-team
all-American and to the Payton Award Watch list (the award given annually to
the top player at the FCS level) by The Sports Network and he was tabbed as the
preseason Big Sky Conference offensive player of the year by the conference's
coaches. He has also been named a preseason all-American by various other publications
and outlets.
Sorensen, a transfer from BYU who was the Great West
Conference's Offensive Player of the Year in 2011, completed 288-of-425 passes
(67.8 percent) for 3,143 yards and 17 touchdowns and finished with 3,094 total
yards last year. In 2010 he completed 261-of-390 passes for a school-record
3,163 passing yards and 21 touchdowns. He holds nearly every SUU single-game
and single season passing and total offense record and is among the top two in
every career category.
Johnny Unitas Golden
Arm Award Watch List
Ryan
Aplin, Arkansas State
Matt
Barkley, USC
Tajh
Boyd, Clemson
Alex
Carder, Western Michigan
Derek
Carr, Fresno State
B.J.
Daniels, South Florida
Seth
Doege, Texas Tech
Nick
Florence, Baylor
Mike
Glennon, NC State
Landry
Jones, Oklahoma
Collin
Klein, Kansas State
EJ
Manuel, Florida State
AJ
McCarron, Alabama
Aaron Murray,
Georgia
Ryan
Nassib, Syracuse
Casey
Pachall, TCU
Keith
Price, Washington
Sean
Renfree, Duke
Bryn
Renner, North Carolina
Jordan
Rodgers, Vanderbilt
Denard
Robinson, Michigan
Nathan
Scheelhaase, Illinois
Geno
Smith, West Virginia
Brad Sorensen, So. Utah
Tyler
Tettleton, Ohio
Logan
Thomas, Virginia Tech
Jeff
Tuel, Washington State
James
Vandenberg, Iowa
Tyler
Wilson, Arkansas
