Penn State has one of the best running backs rooms in college football. So, it should come as no surprise that the Nittany Lions have a member of it on the preseason award watch list for the honor given to college football\u2019s most outstanding player regardless of position at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Sophomore running back Nicholas Singleton<\/a><\/strong> is one of roughly 80 players on the Maxwell Award preseason watch list<\/a><\/strong>. He is the reigning Big Ten freshman of the year and enters 2023 with hopes of being named the league and nation\u2019s top ball carrier. He could also take home the Maxwell, which will be handed out at the ESPN Home Depot College Awards Show in December. <\/p>\n Singleton rushed for 1,061 yards and 12 touchdowns as a freshman in 2022. He will again be paired with classmate Kaytron Allen<\/a><\/strong>. He galloped for 867 yards and 10 scores in 2023. <\/p>\n Even if he isn\u2019t also on the Maxwell Award watch list, Allen will lead the Penn State offense along with Singleton. It returns plenty of production. And, quarterback Drew Allar<\/a><\/strong> prepares to take over the unit.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re the heart and soul of the offense,\u201d Lions offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich recently told BWI. \u201cAt the end of the day, you have to stop them. You may be in a really good call, but they\u2019re talented enough to still win. That\u2019s why you make them the heart and soul. They can be in a great call, in a good defense, a loaded front, and you still don\u2019t know. You know?<\/p>\n \u201cYou want to lean on that. When in doubt, you\u2019re going to default to the run game, and that\u2019s a good thing to have. That helps the defense out, it helps your special teams out, it helps field position. You want to be in control of every game. You want to have that feeling. Having a dominant run game helps you have that feeling that you\u2019re never really having to play from behind and you\u2019re controlling the game. We want to control the game.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch list season is here. Penn State will have more players recognized over the next two weeks as it kicks off preseason camp. The Nittany Lions then open the season on Sept. 2 against West Virginia. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET. NBC will televise the matchup in its first Big Ten Saturday Night slot of the year. <\/p>\n The post Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton lands on Maxwell Award watch list<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penn State has one of the best running backs rooms in college football. So, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Singleton, Allen, will lead the Penn State offense <\/h2>\n