University of North Carolina Athletics
Jason Brown Remains on Rimington Trophy List
August 24, 2004 | Football
Aug. 24, 2004
North Carolina senior center Jason Brown is one of 37 players named to the revised preseason watch list for the Dave Rimington Trophy, which is given to the top center in college football. The Henderson, N.C., native is ready to start at center for the third consecutive year for the Tar Heels.
The pre-season watch list was released in March prior to spring football. The revised watch list will be updated throughout the season in the weekly Rimington Reports. Awarded annually to the best center in the country, the Dave Rimington Trophy enters the 2004 season with a strong field of potential stand-out centers.
"College football season is about anticipation and execution. We are looking forward to tracking our watch list candidates as the season progresses. Each season we look to highlight the top centers in the country through our watch list as well as the weekly Rimington Reports and in 2004 we feel that we have a very exciting group of young men," said Dave Rimington, a consensus first-team All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982. Rimington also won the Outland Trophy twice, becoming the only double winner of the award given to the nation's premiere college interior lineman.
The Rimington Trophy recipient is determined by a consensus of the four All-America teams: The Walter Camp Football Foundation, America Football Coaches Association, Football Writers Association of America, and "The Sporting News."
rown is one of six ACC centers named to the watch list. He joins Florida State's David Castillo, NC State's Jed Paulsen, Miami's Joel Rodriguez, Maryland's Kyle Schmitt and Virginia's Zac Yarbrough.
The five-year old trophy (Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, Miami's Brett Romberg, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, and Nebraska's Dominic Raiola are past recipients) is presented by Canon, USA and Black & Decker.
