Sellers/Stewart Named to 2026 Walter Camp Player of the Year Preseason Watch List

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior quarterback LaNorris Sellers and EDGE Dylan Stewart were two of the 50 players named to the 2026 Walter Camp Player of the Year Preseason Watch List on Monday, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced. First given out in 1967, it is the nation’s fourth-oldest college football award.

South Carolina is one of just nine schools in FBS with multiple players on the watch list (Georgia, Indiana, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Texas and Texas A&M the others).

A Rex Enright permanent team captain in each of the last two seasons, Sellers has played in 27 games (24 starts) at South Carolina, throwing for 5,057 yards and 33 touchdowns (11th in school history) and rushing for 995 yards and 13 touchdowns. He has four career 300-yard passing games and a pair of 100-yard rushing outings. His 63.4% career completion rate is third in program history behind only Spencer Rattler (67.5%) and Connor Shaw (65.5%).

In 2025, Sellers completed 178-of-293 passes (60.8%) for 2,437 yards and 13 touchdowns. Additionally, he rushed 149 times for 270 yards and five touchdowns. Sellers completed eight passes of 50 yards or more, seven of which went for touchdowns. As a freshman in 2024, Sellers was National Freshman of the Year and a FWAA Freshman All-American. He earned All-SEC honors and was tabbed the SEC Freshman of the Year after completing 196-of-299 passes (65.6%) for 2,534 yards and 18 touchdowns. He also logged 674 rushing yards on 166 attempts (4.1 avg.) with seven touchdowns. A Florence, S.C. native, Sellers led the team to a 9-4 record in 2024 with four top-25 wins in the team’s final five games of the regular season.

A Florence, S.C. native, Sellers also earned a spot on the Maxwell Award Watch List.

Stewart started 11 games for the Gamecocks in 2025, earning All-SEC honors and honorable mention All-America distinction. He totaled 33 tackles with 4.5 sacks and a team-leading 12.0 tackles for loss. He also had eight QB hurries, two pass breakups and three forced fumbles (T-2^nd in the SEC). Stewart was a unanimous Freshman All-American and finalist for the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award in 2024 after notching 23 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks, which ranked third among all FBS freshmen.

A Washington, D.C. native, Stewart was also tabbed a 2026 First Team Walter Camp Preseason All-American, a Preseason First Team All-SEC member (as voted on by media attending SEC Media Days in Tampa the week of July 20). He also was named to the Nagurski Trophy List Watch for the second consecutive fall and The Lombardi Award™ 2026 Preseason Watch List recently.

The 2026 Walter Camp Player of Year Watch List will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in early November and three finalists will be announced in early December. The 2026 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 138 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced in the second week of December.

2026 Walter Camp Player of Year Preseason Watch List
Micah Alejado, QB, sophomore, Hawaii
Xavier Atkins, LB, junior, Auburn *
C.J. Bailey, QB, junior, North Carolina State
Charlie Becker, WR, junior, Indiana
Rasheem Biles, LB, senior, Texas *
DeSean Bishop, RB, junior, Tennessee
Isaac Brown, RB, junior, Louisville
Sammy Brown, LB, junior, Clemson *
C.J. Carr, QB, sophomore, Notre Dame
Trinidad Chambliss, QB, senior, Ole Miss
Cam Coleman, WR, junior, Texas ^
Cam Cook, RB, senior, West Virginia ^
Mario Craver, WR, junior, Texas A&M
Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, QB, senior, Marshall
Devon Dampier, QB, senior, Utah
Cameron Dickey, RB, junior, Texas Tech
K.J. Duff, WR, junior, Rutgers ^
Noah Fifita, QB, senior, Arizona
Mark Fletcher, RB, senior, Miami
Trey’Dez Green, TE, junior, LSU *
Ahmad Hardy, RB, junior, Missouri *
Caleb Hawkins, RB, sophomore, Oklahoma State ^
Kevin Jennings, QB, senior, SMU
Kewan Lacy, RB, junior, Ole Miss *
Broc Lowry, QB, junior, Western Michigan
Maddux Madsen, QB, senior, Boise State
Jayden Maiava, QB, senior, USC
Arch Manning, QB, sophomore, Texas *
LJ Martin, RB, senior, BYU
John Mateer, QB, senior, Oklahoma
Owen McCown, QB, senior, UTSA
Darian Mensah, QB, Junior, Miami
Nick Minicucci, QB, senior, Delaware
Dante Moore, QB, senior, Oregon
Leonard Moore, DB, junior, Notre Dame *
Marcel Reed, QB, junior, Texas A&M
Duce Robinson, WR, senior, Florida State
Ellis Robinson IV, DB, sophomore, Georgia ^
Julian Sayin, QB, Sophomore, Ohio State ^
LaNorris Sellers, QB, junior, South Carolina
Colin Simmons, Edge, junior, Texas *
Anthony Smith, Edge, senior, Minnesota ^
Jeremiah Smith, WR, junior, Ohio State *
Dylan Stewart, Edge, junior, South Carolina *
Gunner Stockton, QB, Senior, Georgia
Lucky Sutton, RB, senior, San Diego State
Jai’Den Thomas, RB, senior, UNLV
Malachi Toney, WR/PR, sophomore, Miami *
Tyrique Tucker, DL, senior, Indiana *
Bryce Underwood, QB, sophomore, Michigan

* – denotes 2026 Walter Camp Preseason First Team All-American

^ – denotes 2026 Walter Camp Preseason Second Team All-American

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