NEW ORLEANS (October 24, 2024) – Washington State quarterback John Mateer was one of 14 quarterbacks added to the 2024 Manning Award Watch List, the Allstate Sugar Bowl announced Thursday.
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates’ bowl performances in its balloting.
Mateer, who was added to the Maxwell Award Watch List last week, enters the week with 1,896 passing yards, 16 passing touchdowns and leading the team with 533 rushing yards and eight rushing touchdowns. The redshirt-sophomore opened the season setting a school record with six total touchdowns in his first career start, the most by any Cougar quarterback in their first career start. Mateer followed with another school record in the week two win over Texas Tech, setting the top mark for rushing yards by a quarterback with 197 and added two more rushing touchdowns in the win over Washington in Seattle. In the double-overtime win over San Jose State, Mateer became the first player in program history with 300 pass yards and 100 rush yards, recording 501 yards of total offense along the way, the second-best total offense mark in the country this season. Last week in the win over Hawai’i, Mateer rushed for two touchdowns and threw for three more while completing 23-of-27 passes, the fourth-best completion percentage (85.0) in WSU single-game history.
The Little Elm, Texas native enters the week fifth nationally with 347.0 yards of total offense, seventh with 14.7 yards-per-completion, third in the country with 24 runs of 10+ yards and with 35 missed tackles, the most by any quarterback in the country this season.
Finalists for the honor will be determined by a select panel of national media covering college football, as well as each of the Mannings. That list will be released on Thursday, December 5 and the winner is scheduled to be announced following the College Football Playoff National Championship.
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