ACC Well-Represented on 2025 Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List

Football
September 30, 2025

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference is proud to announce that 13 student-athletes from its member establishments have been named to the 2025 Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List, as introduced in the present day.
 
The watch record consists of 67 of the nation’s high leaders in faculty soccer, recognizing people who’ve demonstrated distinctive braveness, integrity, and sportsmanship each on and off the sphere.
 
ACC Players Named to 2025 Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List
Name, Position, Class, School
Jude Bowry, OL, R-Jr., Boston College
Jeffrey Johnson, TE, R-Sr., California
Tristan Leigh, OL, Grad., Clemson
Chandler Rivers, CB, Sr., Duke
Luke Petitbon, OL, R-Sr., Florida State
Francis Mauigoa, OL, Jr., Miami
Will Hardy, DB, Sr., North Carolina
Isaiah Shirley, DL, R-So., NC State
Eli Holstein, QB, R-So., Pitt
Derek McDonald, LB, R-Sr., Syracuse
Sam Roush, TE, Sr., Stanford
Tyson Flowers, S, R-Jr., Virginia Tech
Nick Andersen, DB, Sr., Wake Forest
 
Each nominee was chosen by their respective college for his or her excellent management on the sphere, within the classroom, and inside their communities.
 
Twenty semifinalists for the award shall be chosen by a subset of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Selection Committee and introduced on Tuesday, October 14. From there, three finalists shall be named on Monday, December 15, and the winner shall be introduced on the award ceremony, held at The Star in Frisco, Texas, on April 16, 2026.