Seven ACC Stars Named to 2025 Walter Camp Player of the Year Preseason Watch List

Football
August 04, 2025

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to be well-represented on the nationwide preseason watch lists this fall, as seven standout student-athletes have been named to the Walter Camp 2025 Player of the Year Preseason Watch List, as introduced as we speak by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
 
One of probably the most prestigious honors in faculty soccer, the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, offered by Crabtree Lexus of New Haven, is the fourth-oldest particular person award within the sport. Voted on by FBS head coaches and sports activities data administrators, it acknowledges the perfect participant within the nation every season.
 
This 12 months’s preseason watch listing options 46 elite gamers from throughout the nation, together with 38 offensive stars and eight defensive standouts, representing 37 colleges throughout 11 conferences (plus independents).
 
ACC Players Named to the Walter Camp 2025 Player of the Year Preseason Watch List
Name, School, Class, Position
Cade Klubnik, Clemson, Senior, Quarterback
Peter Woods, Clemson, Junior, Defensive Tackle
Jamal Haynes, Georgia Tech, Redshirt-Senior, Running Back
Isaac Brown, Louisville, Sophomore, Running Back
Carson Beck, Miami, Redshirt-Senior, Quarterback
Kyle Louis, Pitt, Redshirt-Junior, Linebacker
Demond Claiborne, Wake Forest, Senior, Running Back
 
The 2025 Player of the Year watch listing can be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in early November, and three finalists can be introduced in early December. The 2025 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 133 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports activities data administrators, can be introduced on ESPN’s College Football Awards Show on December 12.
 
Earlier this summer time, the Foundation introduced its 2025 preseason All-American groups. Walter Camp is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious collegiate soccer All-America crew and was first chosen in 1889.
 
Considered the “Father of American Football,” Walter Camp launched the play from scrimmage, set performs, the numerical evaluation of objectives and tries, and the restriction of play to eleven males per facet in 1880. Nine years later, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, chosen the first-ever faculty soccer All-America crew. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was based in 1967 to perpetuate the beliefs of Camp and to proceed the custom of choosing yearly an All-America crew. Visit www.waltercamp.org for extra data.
 
The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses faculty soccer’s most prestigious awards. The NCFAA’s 25 awards have honored greater than 950 recipients since 1935. Visit NCFAA.org for extra data.