Notre Dame star named to Maxwell Award Preseason Watch List in hopes of reversing more than a decade long drought originally appeared on A to Z Sports.

Michigan revealed on Monday that Haynes is on the Maxwell Award watch list in the 2025 preseason, as one of 80 players that the committee is keeping tabs on.

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty won the Maxwell Award (college football’s player of the year) and the Doak Walker Award (nation’s top running back) during his record-breaking 2024 campaign. The Broncos have another Maxwell Award candidate this season in junior quarterback Maddux Madsen, who was named to the award’s watch list on Monday.