Wes Hoeh Named to 2025 Rimington Trophy Watchlist

STORRS, CT – UConn heart Wes Hoeh (Glen Ellyn, IL) has been named to the 2025 Rimington Trophy preseason watchlist introduced on Friday. The Rimington Trophy is introduced yearly to probably the most excellent heart in NCAA Division I College Football. Since its inception, the award has raised over $5 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

Hoeh, who transferred in to UConn final fall from Syracuse, helped anchor an offensive line that fueled the way in which to an explosive offense assault. The UConn offense continued lean on their dashing assault and in 2024 averaged 199.2 yards per sport to rank twenty first nationally. The Huskies scored 31.9 factors per sport, thirty fifth nationally, and had the most effective purple zone offenses within the nation, rating fourth (.932). UConn’s 5169 yards of whole offense ranked as third most in UConn soccer historical past whereas the 2590 yards dashing ranked second all-time. The Huskies completed the yr scoring 415 factors, the second highest whole in class historical past.

The offensive line unit was dominant but once more, permitting simply 1.08 sacks per sport, thirteenth nationally, and simply 4.00 tackles for loss per sport, fifteenth nationally. During the season, the Huskies had been named to the mid-season honor roll for the Joe Moore Award, given yearly for the Most Outstanding Offensive Line Unit in school soccer.

This yr, the Trophy committee labored with Pro Football Focus (PFF) to slender down its checklist to the highest 40 facilities. PFF grades each participant on each play of each sport on how properly they execute their given project. 

While greater than a dozen All-America groups are chosen yearly, the Rimington Trophy committee makes use of these three prestigious groups to find out a winner: Walter Camp Foundation (WCF), Sporting News (SN), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA).

Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America heart on the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, throughout which era he grew to become the John Outland Trophy’s solely two-time winner because the nation’s most interesting school inside lineman. For extra on the Rimington Trophy, go to www.rimingtontrophy.com