USF Football’s Brown Named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List

TAMPA, FLA., Aug. 4, 2025 – USF Football quarterback Byrum Brown has been named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List for the second time on his profession.
 
Brown was amongst 45 gamers, two from the American Conference, named to the preseason watch checklist for the award. First offered in 1967, the Walter Camp Award is offered yearly by the Walter Camp Football Foundation to essentially the most excellent participant in school soccer.
 
Brown, who additionally earned recognition on the watch checklist coming into the 2024 season, returns from an injury-shortened season final yr that noticed him miss all however two snaps within the ultimate eight video games. He began the primary 5 video games for the Bulls in 2024 and posted 836 yards passing and 269 yards dashing, main the Bulls in each classes on the time of his harm.
 
In 2023, Brown joined Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels as the one gamers within the nation to move for greater than 3,000 yards and run for greater than 800. He additionally set 12 USF information, together with season marks for passing yards (3,292), touchdowns (26), and completion proportion (64.6%). He led the Bulls operating for 809 yards and 11 touchdowns on the bottom, and his 4,101 whole yards stand second all-time in USF historical past.
 
Brown enters the 2025 season standing fifth on the USF profession passing (4,532), whole offense (5,739), and landing move (33) charts.
 
Brown was earlier named to the Shrine Bowl 1000, a watch checklist for the East-West Shrine Bowl school soccer all-star recreation performed in January.
 
SOUTH FLORIDA 2025 AWARD WATCH LIST MEMBERS
• Walter Camp Player of the Year – Byrum Brown, QB
• Wuerffel Trophy – Christian Helms, WR
• Thorpe Award – De’Shawn Rucker, CB
• Shrine Bowl 1000 – Byrum Brown, QB, De’Shawn Rucker, CB & Jahlyn Shuler, LB
• All-State AFCA Good Works Team – Alex Golesh
• All-State AFCA Good Works Team – Christian Helms, WR
 
The Bulls will open their third season below head coach Alex Golesh in a nationally televised recreation on ESPN on Thursday, Aug. 28, vs. Boise State. That recreation is ready for a 5:30 p.m. kickoff at Raymond James Stadium. USF, which is considered one of 15 applications to have received a bowl or playoff recreation in every of the final two seasons, returns 12 starters in 2025 (six on offense and 6 on protection).
 
Up Next:
USF will maintain the annual Kickoff Luncheon on Aug. 20 at Armature Works in downtown Tampa. The annual occasion will function head coach Alex Golesh and the whole USF staff and training employees. Public tickets are on sale now and might be bought here.
 
Tickets:
Season tickets for the 2025 USF soccer season tickets are on sale and could also be bought by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting this LINK.
 
Single-game tickets for the 2025 USF soccer season might be bought by calling 1-800-GoBulls or visiting this LINK.
 
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ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF soccer program first took the sector in 1997 and accomplished its twenty eighth season in 2024 with its second-straight bowl victory within the Hawai’i Bowl. The Bulls are considered one of 15 applications to win a postseason recreation every of the final two years as head coach Alex Golesh turned the primary USF coach to file bowl victories in every of their first two seasons. USF accomplished building on a brand new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $349-million on-campus stadium and soccer operations middle broke floor within the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 17 successful seasons, earned 16 All-America choices (together with one in 2024), in addition to 33 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 gamers chosen within the NFL Draft and the Bulls have made 12 bowl recreation appearances (going 8-4). USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, whereas ending each seasons ranked within the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked within the Top 25 in the course of the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as excessive as No. 2 within the Associated Press rankings in the course of the 2007 season.
 

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