No team enters the 2022 college football season with more offensive star power than Ohio State, and the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award reflects that.
Ohio State is the only school with three players on the Maxwell Award’s 85-man preseason watch list as C.J. Stroud, TreVeyon Henderson and Jaxon Smith-Njigba are all among the preseason nominees for the award, which honors college football’s most outstanding player.
Stroud was a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award in 2021, while Henderson became the only true freshman on last year’s Maxwell Award watch list when he was a midseason addition to the list.