NEW YORK – Virginia Tech center Johnny Jordan was named to the Rimington Trophy preseason watch list on Friday, making him just one of five centers in the ACC on the prestigious list.
This year, the Trophy committee worked with Pro Football Focus (PFF) to narrow down its list to the top 40 centers in college football. PFF grades every player on every play of every game on how well they execute their given assignment. That play-by-play grading allowed the Trophy committee to create a watch list based both on nominations from the schools and data provided by PFF.
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A 6-foot-1 graduate student, Jordan appeared in all 13 games for the Hokies during the 2021 season, making three starts at center. The veteran also worked at other positions along the line, with most notably at right guard.
The Leesburg, Virginia native already owns a degree in Kinesiology from Maryland, where he was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection in 2020.
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I College Football. Since its inception, the award has raised over $5 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only two-time winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.