King on Davey O’Brien Award Watch List – Football — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King (Longview, Texas/Longview H.S.) is one of 36 quarterbacks on the official watch list for the 2025 Davey O’Brien Award. The Davey O’Brien award is presented annually to the nation’s top signal-caller.

King enters the 2025 season ranked as one of the nation’s top 10 quarterbacks by ESPN.com. In just two years as a Yellow Jacket, he has moved into the top 10 in school history in passing yards (4,956 – sixth), total offense (6,280 yards – fifth), touchdown passes (41 – t-fourth) and touchdowns responsible for (62 – t-fourth).

Last season, he became the first NCAA Division I FBS player in at least 69 years (dating back to 1956) with no less than 2,000 passing yards, 10 touchdown passes and a 70% completion percentage, as well as two or fewer interceptions in a season. His 72.9% completion rate in 2024 and 37 touchdowns responsible for in 2023 are both single-season school records, while the 72.9% completion percentage in ’24 also set a new Atlantic Coast Conference record.

Earlier this preseason, King was named to the official watch list for the Maxwell Award (national player of the year). A two-time team captain, he is also a nominee for the AFCA Good Works Team and on the official watch list for the Wuerffel Trophy, both of which recognize student-athletes for their leadership on the field and in the community.

The Davey O’Brien Award’s national selection committee will name semifinalists and finalists in November, with the winner unveiled live during The Home Depot College Football Awards show, Dec. 12 on ESPN. The 49^th-annual Davey O’Brien Award will be presented on Feb. 16, 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Georgia Tech has posted consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade and returns five all-ACC honorees from last season’s squad, including Keylan Rutledge, an all-America guard and first-team all-conference selection. Other top performers returning for the Yellow Jackets in 2025 include all-ACC selections DT Jordan van den Berg, LB Kyle Efford, RB Jamal Haynes and WR Malik Rutherford, as well as two of the league’s top quarterbacks in senior Haynes King and redshirt freshman Aaron Philo.

Haynes and the Yellow Jackets open the 2025 season on Friday, Aug. 29 at Colorado (8 p.m. ET – ESPN). The Jackets then open their home slate versus Gardner-Webb on Sept. 6 (3:30 p.m. – ACC Network Extra) before their highly anticipated ACC opener against Clemson on Sept. 13 (noon…