If there’s one thing watch lists prove, it’s that you don’t have to actually watch football to write one. The Jim Thorpe Award, presented annually to the top defensive back in college football, released its initial watch list today, and noticeably absent from the list of 35 DBs is the name of Florida State cornerback Levonta Taylor, whose star is most certainly on the rise following a promising 2017 campaign.
Here’s the entire watch list, which does not include any Seminoles.
DeAndre Baker, Sr. Georgia
Kyron Brown, Sr. Akron
Malik Grant, Jr. Marshall
Jah’Shawn Johnson, Sr.