{"id":130850,"date":"2025-08-09T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:38:09","slug":"2-nittany-lion-football-players-are-part-of-watch-lists-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130850\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Nittany Lion football players are part of watch lists | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1100\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Goal-post-1-1100x738.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>UNIVERSITY PARK \u2014 Two more Penn State football players were named to watch lists the past two days.<\/p>\n<p>Nittany Lion redshirt senior tight end Khalil Dinkins was named to the Mackey Award watch list on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The John Mackey Award is presented annually to the top tight end in college football. Penn State\u2019s Tyler Warren won the Mackey Award in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday,senior quarterback Drew Allar was selected for the Davey O\u2019Brien National Quarterback Award watch list earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Award is presented annually to the nation\u2019s best college quarterback and is the oldest and most prestigious national quarterback award in the country.<\/p>\n<p>OL recognition<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH\u2013 Pitt Panther offensive lineman Lyndon Cooper was named to the 2025 Rimington Trophy Watch List, which honors the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I Football.<\/p>\n<p> Cooper, a redshirt senior, is one of just 40 centers nationally, and one of only nine from the Atlantic Coast Conference, selected to the prestigious preseason list. <\/p>\n<p>The Rimington Trophy committee, in partnership with Pro Football Focus, evaluated nominations alongside detailed play-by-play grading data to determine the initial candidates.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/expanded-sunday-hunting-days-set\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Once the 150-year-old ban on Sunday hunting was finally repealed, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has wasted no &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/final-four-west-suburban-team-builds-confidence-heading-into-semifinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/for-penn-state-backup-qbs-future-is-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/curves-9th-inning-rally-goes-for-naught-in-loss-to-hartford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/cowboys-cant-afford-to-let-former-penn-state-stars-saga-continue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <a style=\"color:#2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2025\/08\/blair-county-athletes-help-aaaba-teams-get-into-big-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>JOHNSTOWN \u2014 Two Blair County natives helped set up an all-Johnstown championship in the AAABA National &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY PARK \u2014 Two more Penn State football players were named to watch lists the past two days.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-130850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996963145543474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}