Just about all the SEC schools with playoff hopes has at least one player named to the watch list: Ryan Williams from Alabama, Nate Frazier of Georgia, Garrett Nussmeier and Caden Durham of LSU, Quintrevion Wisner and Arch Manning of Texas and LaNorris Sellers of South Carolina.

Michigan revealed on Monday that Haynes is on the Maxwell Award watch list in the 2025 preseason, as one of 80 players that the committee is keeping tabs on.

Three of Penn State's top players are on the watch list for the nation's college football player of the year in 2025.