DALLAS, Texas – Old Dominion University junior running back Ray Lawry was named to the Doak Walker Award Watch List. The award is presented annually to the nation’s top running back.
Lawry led Conference USA in rushing last season with 1,136 yards and added 12 total touchdowns. He rushed for more than 100-yards six times, including a pair of 200-yard games to begin the season. A junior, he is already ODU’s all-time leading rusher and owns the two best seasons in school history, including becoming the first Monarchs to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.
Lawry is one of four running backs from Conference USA on the list, joining D'Andre Ferby and Anthony Wales of Western Kentucky, and Aaron Jones of UTEP.
The award, which will name its 27th recipient in 2016, is named for SMU’s three-time All-America running back Doak Walker. It is the only major collegiate award that requires all candidates to be in good academic standing and on schedule to graduate within one year of other students of the same classification.
2016 Doak Walker Award Watch List
Josh Adams (So.), Notre Dame
Saquon Barkley (So.), Penn State
Jamauri Bogan (So.), W. Michigan
Joel Bouagnon (Sr.), Northern Illinois
Matt Breida (Sr.), Georgia Southern
Shannon Brooks (So.), Minnesota
Algernon Brown (Sr.), BYU
James Butler (Jr.), Nevada
Nick Chubb (Jr.), Georgia
Jordan Chunn (Jr.), Troy
Corey Clement (Sr.), Wisconsin
James Conner (Jr.), Pittsburgh
Dalvin Cook (Jr.), Florida State
Marcus Cox (Sr.), Appalachian State
LeShun Daniels, Jr. (Sr.), Iowa
Justin Davis (Sr.), USC
Matthew Dayes (Sr.), NC State
Jela Duncan (Sr.), Duke
D’Andre Ferby (So.), W. Kentucky
Tarean Folston (Sr.), Notre Dame
D’Onta Foreman (Jr.), Texas
Leonard Fournette (Jr.), LSU
Jarvion Franklin (Jr.), W. Michigan
Royce Freeman (Jr.), Oregon
Wayne Gallman (Jr.), Clemson
Myles Gaskin (So.), Washington
Damien Harris (So.), Alabama
Paul Harris (Sr.), Hawaii
Kyle Hicks (Jr.), TCU
Brian Hill (Jr.), Wyoming
Dontrell Hilliard (Jr.), Tulane
Brandon Holloway (Sr.), Miss. State
Elijah Hood (Jr.), North Carolina
Jalen Hurd (Jr.), Tennessee
Johnny Jefferson (Jr.), Baylor
Aaron Jones (Jr.), UTEP
Charles Jones (Sr.), Kansas State
Markell Jones (So.), Purdue
Ronald Jones II (So.), USC
Alvin Kamara (Jr.), Tennessee
Ray Lawry (Jr.), Old Dominion
Phillip Lindsay (So.), Colorado
Shock Linwood (Sr.), Baylor
Marlon Mack (Jr.), South Florida
Devante Mays (Sr.), Utah State
Christian McCaffrey (Jr.), Stanford
Elijah McGuire (Sr.), UL-Lafayette
Sony Michel (Jr.), Georgia
Taquan Mizzell (Sr.), Virginia
Khalfani Muhammad (Sr.), Cal
Terrell Newby (Sr.), Nebraska
Arkeel Newsome (Jr.), Connecticut
Jacobi Owens (Sr.), Air Force
Samaje Perine (Jr.), Oklahoma
Donnel Pumphrey (Sr.), SDSU
Devine Redding (Jr.), Indiana
Larry Rose III (Jr.), New Mexico State
Bo Scarbrough (So.), Alabama
De’Veon Smith (Sr.), Michigan
Justin Stockton (Jr.), Texas Tech
Shaq Vann (So.), Eastern Michigan
Ke’Shawn Vaughn (So.), Illinois
Anthony Wales (Sr.), W. Kentucky
Kody Walker (Sr.), Arkansas
Warren Wand (So.), Arkansas State
Chris Warren III (So.), Texas
Mike Warren (So.), Iowa State
Tre Watson (Jr.), Cal
Ralph Webb (Jr.), Vanderbilt
David Williams (Jr.), South Carolina
Jamaal Williams (Sr.), BYU
Rawleigh Williams III (So.), Arkansas
Stanley Williams (Jr.), Kentucky
Nick Wilson (Jr.), Arizona
Shaun Wilson (Jr.), Duke
Marquis Young (So.), Massachusetts