NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The preseason honors continue to pile up for UTSA senior Frank Harris, who on Friday was chosen by the Walter Camp Foundation as a Walter Camp Player of the Year Preseason Player to Watch.
Harris, a Schertz Clemens High School product, is one of 52 players — including one of 22 quarterbacks — and the only player from a Conference USA team on the watch list for nation's fourth-oldest individual college football accolade.
The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in mid-November. The 2022 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 130 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced on ESPN's College Football Awards Show in December. The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation's 55th annual national awards banquet in New Haven, Conn in early 2023.
Just yesterday, Harris was announced as a nominee for the Wuerffel Trophy, college football's premier award for community service.
Earlier this week, Harris was named the C-USA Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and last week he was selected for the Davey O'Brien Award National Quarterback Award and Maxwell Award preseason watch lists.
A semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Awards a year ago, he enters the 2022 campaign with a 20-8 record as UTSA's starting QB. The lefthander has thrown for 5,293 yards and 42 touchdowns on 488-of-739 passing (.660) and rushed for 1,220 yards and 15 TDs as a Roadrunner.
Harris guided UTSA to the most successful season in program history in 2021, helping lead the Roadrunners to a 12-2 record, their first conference championship and top-25 ranking and to their second straight and third overall bowl game. A two-time national player of the week last fall, he set school single-season records for passing yards (3,177), completions (398), touchdowns (27), attempts (263), completion percentage (.661), passing efficiency (152.5), total offense (3,743) and touchdowns responsible for (33). He also rushed for 566 yards — a program record for a QB — and six scores and caught three passes for 36 yards and a TD en route to Dave Campbell's Texas Football Offensive Player of the Year and second-team all-conference accolades.
UTSA will open its 12th season of play and third under 2021 C-USA Coach of the Year Jeff Traylor on Sept. 3 against Houston. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. at the Alamodome in a game that will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.
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