Football’s Shadre Hurst Named to the 2025 Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List

DALLAS – Tulane redshirt junior guard Shadre Hurst was not too long ago named to the 2025 Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA).

The listing this 12 months is comprised of fifty gamers from 35 completely different packages. There are 16 offensive tackles, 15 guards on this 12 months’s listing to go along with 10 defensive tackles and 9 facilities. The Outland Trophy is given yearly to the very best inside lineman in school soccer

Hurst performed in all 14 video games with 13 begins final season the place he helped the offense rank among the many prime 5 within the league in seven classes together with third down conversions (1st – 50.3), completion share (third – 62.9), scoring offense (2nd – 35.1), interceptions thrown (4th – 9), passing effectivity (1st – 157.6),  dashing (third – 195.6), time of possession (third – 32:13), first downs (third – 291) and passing yards per completions (4th – 14.16).The offense scored 20+ factors in 11 of the staff’s 14 video games. He was a 2024 First Team All-AAC choice by the league’s coaches and a First Team All-AAC selection by Phil Steele.

The FWAA will announce six or seven Outland Trophy semifinalists on Nov. 19 at a reception in Omaha, and people gamers will then be pared down to a few finalists introduced on Nov. 25 on ESPN. The Outland Trophy winner is chosen from these finalists who will probably be a part of the annual FWAA All-America Team.

The FWAA All-America Committee, after voting enter from the whole membership, selects a 26-man first staff and finally the three Outland finalists. Committee members, then by particular person poll, choose the winner. Only inside linemen on offense or protection are eligible for the award; ends and edge rushers aren’t eligible.

Players could also be added or faraway from the watch listing in the course of the course of the season. For a 3rd 12 months now, the FWAA will announce an Outland Trophy National Player of the Week every Tuesday this season. If not already on the watch listing, every week’s honored participant will probably be added at the moment.

The Outland Trophy, celebrating its eightieth 12 months since its founding, is the third-oldest main school soccer award. Created in 1946 when Dr. John Outland introduced the FWAA with a monetary contribution to provoke the award, the Outland Trophy has been given to the very best inside lineman in school soccer ever since Dr. Outland, an All-American on the University of Pennsylvania within the late Nineties, finally took up observe in Kansas City, Mo. An avid outdoorsman, Dr. Outland believed linemen didn’t get the credit score they deserved and wished an award to acknowledge them.

Sixteen NCFAA members are unveiling preseason watch lists over a two-week interval because the affiliation spearheads a coordinated effort to advertise every award’s preseason candidates.

Following is the remaining 2025 preseason watch listing calendar:

Tue., July 29: Bronko Nagurski Trophy

Wed., July 30: Paycom Jim Thorpe Award/Butkus Award

Thu., July 31: Paul Hornung Award/Allstate Wuerffel Trophy

Fri., Aug. 1: Lou Groza Award/Ray Guy Award

Mon., Aug. 4: Walter Camp Award

Tue., Aug. 5: Doak Walker Award

Wed., Aug. 6: Biletnikoff Award

Thu., Aug. 7: Davey O’Brien Award

Fri., Aug. 8: Mackey Award/Rimington Trophy

Mon., Aug. 11: Bednarik Award

For extra details about the NCFAA and its award packages, go to NCFAA.org or comply with on X at @NCFAA.

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The Tulane soccer staff (9-5) ended the 2024 season enjoying in this system’s third consecutive bowl recreation. It was additionally the sixth time within the final seven years that Tulane had been chosen to play in a bowl recreation (2018 – Cure Bowl, 2019 – Armed Forces Bowl, 2020 – Famous Idaho Bowl, 2022 – Cotton Bowl, 2023 – Military Bowl and 2024 – Gasparilla Bowl). Overall, it was Tulane’s seventeenth bowl look (1932 – Rose Bowl, 1935 – Sugar Bowl, 1939 – Sugar Bowl, 1970 – Liberty Bowl, 1973 – Astro Bluebonnet Bowl, 1979 – Liberty Bowl, 1980 – Hall of Fame Bowl, 1987 – Independence Bowl, 1998 – Liberty Bowl, 2002 – Hawaii Bowl, 2013 – New Orleans, 2018 – Cure Bowl, 2019 – Armed Forces Bowl, 2020 -Famous Idaho Bowl, 2022 – Cotton Bowl, 2023 – Military Bowl and 2024 – Gasparilla Bowl) with this system sporting an all-time report of 7-10 in bowl video games.

Tulane additionally made the staff’s third straight AAC Championship Game look. The program sports activities a 32-10 report over the past three seasons. The staff’s 32 wins is the fourth-most nationally.

The staff positioned first or second within the AAC in 10 completely different classes together with main the league in third down conversions (52.5), defensive touchdowns (6), completion share (65.6), scoring offense (37.2) and passing effectivity protection (111.65). The staff was the nationwide chief in defensive touchdowns with six.

The staff had a league-high 18 gamers chosen All-AAC final season together with 2025 returners Derrick Graham (First Team – offensive deal with), Shadre Hurst (First Team – offensive guard), Sam Howard (Second Team – linebacker), Bailey Despanie (Second Team – defensive again) and Kameron Hamilton (Third Team – defensive position)

The college introduced the hiring of Jon Sumrall because the forty second head coach of the staff on December 8, 2023. The Huntsville, Alabama native has been one of the profitable head coaches within the nation the final three seasons with a report of 32-9, two Sun Belt Conference championships and a pair of double-digit profitable streaks. He was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of Year and was twice named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year honor. Sumrall returned to Tulane after serving because the Green Wave’s Co-Defensive Coordinator for 3 years (2012-14). In 2013, he was an important a part of Tulane’s run to the New Orleans Bowl, this system’s first postseason look since 2002 and third since 1988. Sumrall additionally was named a finalist for FootballScoop Defensive Line Coach of the Year.

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