Clifford Named to Maxwell Award Watch List

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford has been named to the watch list for the 86th Maxwell Award, The Maxwell Football Club announced on Monday. The award is presented annually to the outstanding player in college football.
 
The Maxwell Award has been presented to the College Player of the Year since 1937 and is named in honor of Robert “Tiny” Maxwell who was a former standout at the Swarthmore College and a renowned sports writer and football official.
 
Sean Clifford · R-Sr. · QB · 6-2 · 212 · Cincinnati, Ohio · Saint Xavier

• Has played in 38 career games, making 33 starts.
• Is one of three Penn State players to reach 8,000 yards of total offense and one of three PSU quarterbacks to eclipse 7,500 career passing yards.
• Sits as the current all-time leader at Penn State in completion percentage (.603).
• Ranks second at PSU in career passing touchdowns (62), third in passing yardage (7,839), completions (607) and passing efficiency (141.2), fourth in attempts (1,006), tied for seventh in yards per passing attempt (7.8), eighth in lowest interception percentage (2.49), and 10th in touchdown pass percentage (6.16) and wins as a starting quarterback (21).
• Is third in school history in 300-yard passing games (7) and 200-yard games (19).
• Among Penn State quarterbacks, is third all-time at PSU in rushing yardage (897) and tied for sixth in rushing touchdowns (10).
• Is second all-time in program history in career total yards (8,736) and touchdowns responsible for (72).
• Owns 26 career games with multi-touchdown passes, including 12 with three or more TDs and three with four or more.
• Has 16 career games with multi-passing touchdown halves and nine games with multi-passing TD quarters.
• Has thrown for at least 250 passing yards and three passing touchdowns in eight career games.
• Has six career touchdown passes of 70 or more yards.
• Has completed 105 career passes of 20 or more yards.

 
The Maxwell Football Club has once again partnered with Pro Football Focus (PFF), XOS and Phil Steele Publications as selection committee partners. PFF provides detailed metrics and performance-based assessments to selection committee staff, and several senior PFF analysts are members of our selection…