NEW ORLEANS (August 15, 2024) – The Manning Award, presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, announced its preseason Watch List on Thursday. The list includes 29 of the top quarterbacks in the nation heading in to the 2024 season and Middle Tennessee's Nicholas Vattiato is among the elite group. Vattiato attended the Manning Passing Academy earlier this summer.
The winner will again be selected by a voting panel, which includes national media and each of the Mannings, after the postseason.
Vattiato, a redshirt junior with a 3.9 GPA, is coming off a season where he became just the third different quarterback in MTSU history to record a 3,000-yard passing season.