COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Six Mountain West football players are among the 73 FBS players nominated for the 2023 Burlsworth Trophy, given annually to the most outstanding football player in American who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field.
Now in its 14th year, the trophy is named in honor of Brandon Burlsworth, former University of Arkansas walk-on and All-American offensive lineman. Each nominee must have begun his first season of participation with an FBS program without financial aid of any kind from his university’s athletic department.
The 2022 winner was quarterback Stetson Bennett from the University of Georgia.
The Burlsworth Trophy award ceremony to honor the three finalists and to announce the 2023 winner will be on Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. CST at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Mountain West nominees
Tyler Crowe, Sr., RB, Boise State
Morice Norris Jr., Sr., NKL, Fresno State
Andrew Choi, Sr., DL, Hawai‘i
Jack Browning, Sr., K/P, San Diego State
Elliot Nimrod, Jr., PK, Utah State
John Hoyland, Jr., PK, Wyoming
