BATON ROUGE – LSU junior center Will Clapp has been named to the Rimington Award Watch List, The Maxwell Football Club announced Tuesday.
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I-A College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised more than $2.9 million for the cystic fibrosis community.
Clapp is expected to take over at center for Tigers after starting 11 games at left guard last season. Clapp was a part of an offense that broke multiple school records in 2016, including the single-game individual rushing records by Leonard Fournette and Derrius Guice along with the school record for total offense in an SEC game with 634 yards against Missouri.