J.J. McCarthy named Davey O'Brien Great 8 quarterback for Week 6
Michigan's J.J. McCarthy and the first 300-yard performance of his Wolverine career have earned national honors after the Wolverines' 31-10 victory over Indiana on Saturday.
The Davey O'Brien Foundation announced on Monday that McCarthy has been named to the Great 8 team for Week 6, an honor for outstanding performances by a quarterback that week.
With McCarthy's inclusion for Week 6, he has been officially added to the Davey O'Brien Award midseason watch list, which now has 59 members. The award is given to the best quarterback in college football each season.
From the Davey O'Brien Foundation release:
FORT WORTH, Texas (Oct. 10, 2022) — The eight quarterbacks named to the Davey O’Brien Great 8 list for the sixth week of the college football season have been officially announced by the Davey O’Brien Foundation. The list features three players on the list for the second consecutive week.
The quarterbacks on this week’s list are TCU’s Max Duggan, Quinn Ewers of Texas, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy, Drew Pyne of Notre Dame, Mississippi State’s Will Rogers, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State, UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson and Clayton Tune of Houston. Duggan, Rogers and Thompson-Robinson were also honored in week five.
With their inclusion on the Great 8 list, Ewers, McCarthy and Pyne have now been officially added to the Davey O’Brien Midseason Watch List, bringing the current list to 59 players. The Midseason Watch List includes all active starting quarterbacks who were either named to the Preseason Watch List or added as Great 8 picks during the season’s first eight weeks.
The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback of the Week, selected from the Great 8 list, will be announced on Tuesday.
The Davey O’Brien Foundation was created in 1977, and the National Quarterback Award, the oldest and most prestigious college quarterback award, was first issued in 1981. Over its time, the Davey O’Brien Foundation has given away more than $1.2 million in scholarships and university grants to help high school and college athletes transform leadership on the field into leadership in life.
In 1938, O’Brien, who wore No. 8 as a star quarterback for TCU, became the first player ever to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award in the same year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. For more information, visit www.DaveyOBrien.org.
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