FORT WORTH, Texas (October 29, 2024) – Washington State quarterback John Mateer was one of 35 quarterbacks named to the Davey O’Brien Award QB Class of 2024, the award announced Tuesday.
The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award is presented annually to the nation’s best college quarterback and is the oldest and most prestigious national quarterback award. In 1938, O’Brien, who was a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
Mateer, who was named to the Maxwell Award Watch List and Manning Award Watch List, enters the week with 2,153 passing yards, 18 passing touchdowns and leading the team with 575 rushing yards and 10 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. 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.
In last week’s win at San Diego State, Mateer rushed for two scores and threw for two scores in his third fourth-quarterback comeback win of the season. WSU is 7-1 for the first time since 2018 and entered the week ranked No. 22 in the Associated Press Top-25.
The Little Elm, Texas native enters the week fifth nationally with 341.0 yards of total offense, seventh with 14.5 yards-per-completion, third in the country with 26 runs of 10+ yards and with 43 missed tackles, the most by any quarterback in the country this season.
The next step in the process will be to select the award’s 16 semifinalists from the 35 quarterbacks. The semifinalists will be chosen based on voting from the Davey O’Brien…
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