ACC Quarterbacks Headline 2025 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Living as much as its fame because the Conference of Quarterbacks, the Atlantic Coast Conference leads all leagues with 13 quarterbacks named to the 2025 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Preseason Watch List, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. introduced this week.
 
The prestigious Golden Arm Award is introduced yearly to the nation’s prime senior or upperclassman quarterback on monitor to graduate.
 
This yr’s watch record options 58 of the nation’s elite signal-callers, a dynamic mixture of returning standouts and rising stars. The ACC’s 13 choices come from 13 totally different member faculties, underscoring the league’s depth, expertise and custom on the quarterback place.
 
Seven of those 13 quarterbacks had been additionally named to the 2025 Davey O’Brien Award Preseason Watch List.
 
ACC Players Named to the 2025 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List
Name, School, Class
Grayson James, Boston College, Redshirt-Senior
Cade Klubnik, Clemson, Senior
Darian Mensah, Duke, Sophomore
Tommy Castellanos, Florida State, Senior
Haynes King, Georgia Tech, Senior
Miller Moss, Louisville, Senior
Carson Beck, Miami, Senior
Eli Holstein, Pitt, Redshirt-Sophomore
Kevin Jennings, SMU, Sophomore
Steve Angeli, Syracuse, Redshirt-Junior
Chandler Morris, Virginia, Senior
Kyron Drones, Virginia Tech, Redshirt-Senior
Robby Ashford, Wake Forest, Redshirt-Senior
 
As the 2025 faculty soccer season progresses, the Golden Arm Award Watch List will probably be narrowed to semifinalists, finalists and in the end one standout quarterback who will probably be honored in December. The winner will probably be acknowledged on the annual Golden Arm Award ceremony on the Four Seasons Hotel in Johnny Unitas’ hometown of Baltimore—a night celebrating management, legacy, and excellence in faculty soccer.
 
Now in its thirty ninth yr, the Golden Arm Award continues to honor achievement on and off the sphere. Presented by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation in partnership with A. O. Smith Corporation, the award highlights character, management, and tutorial success alongside athletic efficiency.
 
New this yr, the Foundation has partnered with Leveling the Playing Field (LPF), a nonprofit that expands entry to youth sports activities by offering tools to underserved communities. Together, the Foundation, A. O. Smith, and LPF are serving to guarantee the subsequent era of athletes and leaders have the instruments and alternatives to succeed—on the sphere and past.