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Walter Payton Award

College football award for most outstanding offensive player

Walter Payton Award

College football award for most outstanding offensive player

FieldValue
nameWalter Payton Award
imageFCS Payton Award.jpg
imagesize130px
captionWalter Payton Award
description"Most outstanding offensive player in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision"
presenterStats Perform
countryUnited States
year1987,
holderBeau Brungard, QB
Youngstown State
website

Youngstown State The Walter Payton Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding offensive player in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) of college football as chosen by a nationwide panel of media and college sports information directors. The honor was first given in 1987 to the outstanding player in the division, but in 1995, eligibility was restricted to offensive players, as the Buck Buchanan Award for defensive players was inaugurated.

The award was named in honor of National Football League (NFL) legend Walter Payton, who starred at Jackson State University in the early 1970s.

Up until presentations for the 2014 season, the Payton and Buchanan Awards were awarded by The Sports Network. Since STATS LLC, now known as Stats Perform, acquired The Sports Network in February 2015, it has presented all of the major FCS awards.

The most recent winner of the award is Beau Brungard, a quarterback from Youngstown State who earned the honor during the 2025 season.

The award was named to honor college and NFL star [[Walter Payton

Winners

YearWinnerSchoolPositionRef.
1987ColgateRBtitle=Walter Payton Award -- History (1987–2014)agency=The Sports Networkdate=2015-01-06quote=[note: includes details about each winner's accomplishments during their award year]url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/payton_history.htmaccess-date=2024-08-29archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106170518/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/payton_history.htmarchive-date=2015-01-06url-status=dead}}
1988Towson StateRB
1989IdahoQB
1990GramblingRB
1991Weber StateQB
1992MarshallQB
1993IdahoQB
1994Alcorn StateQB
1995MontanaQB
1996Northern ArizonaRB
1997VillanovaWR
1998New HampshireRB
1999Georgia SouthernRB
2000FurmanRB
2001VillanovaRB
2002Eastern IllinoisQB
2003ColgateRB
2004William & MaryQB
2005Eastern WashingtonQB
2006New HampshireQB
2007Georgia SouthernQB
2008Appalachian StateQB
2009
2010Stephen F. AustinQB
2011Eastern WashingtonQB
2012Old DominionQB
2013Eastern IllinoisQB
2014VillanovaQB
2015Eastern WashingtonWRtitle=Walter Payton Award: Complete history of the FCS offensive honor (1987–2023)first=Anthonylast=Chiusanopublisher=National Collegiate Athletic Associationdate=2024-01-06quote=[note: includes details about the award itself, and a simple list of each year's winner]url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-01-06/walter-payton-award-complete-history-fcs-offensive-honoraccess-date=2024-08-30archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830071745/https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-01-06/walter-payton-award-complete-history-fcs-offensive-honorarchive-date=2024-08-30url-status=live}}
2016Sam Houston StateQB
2017
2018SamfordQB
2019North Dakota StateQB
2020Southeastern LouisianaQB
2021Eastern WashingtonQB
2022Incarnate WordQB
2023Mark GronowskiSouth Dakota StateQB
2024Tommy MellottMontana StateQB
2025Beau BrungardYoungstown StateQB

Awards won by school

This is a list of the colleges and universities who have had a player win a Walter Payton Award. Among the many schools in the division, only nine have claimed more than one award, and only seven have had more than one player win the award. Eastern Washington has had four players win the award, Villanova has had three players win the award, and five have had two players win: Colgate, Georgia Southern, Idaho, New Hampshire, and Eastern Illinois. Two players have won the award twice, with both being the only players from their institutions to win. In 2009, Armanti Edwards from Appalachian State became the first to receive the award twice, followed in 2017 by Jeremiah Briscoe from Sam Houston State. In 2019, Trey Lance of North Dakota State was the first freshman to receive the award.

SchoolAwards
Eastern Washington4
Villanova3
Appalachian State^2
Colgate
Eastern Illinois
Georgia Southern^
Idaho
New Hampshire
Sam Houston^
Alcorn State1
Furman
Grambling
Incarnate Word
Marshall^
Montana
Montana State
North Dakota State
Northern Arizona
North Dakota State
Old Dominion^
Samford
South Dakota State
Southeastern Louisiana
Stephen F. Austin
Towson
Weber State
William & Mary
Youngstown State

:^ Team is now a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).

References

Informational notes

Citations

References

  1. "Walter Payton Award".
  2. Roy Taylor. (2002). "Walter Payton Biography". Bears History.
  3. (2015-01-06). "Walter Payton Award -- History (1987–2014)".
  4. Chiusano, Anthony. (2024-01-06). "Walter Payton Award: Complete history of the FCS offensive honor (1987–2023)". [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]].
  5. "Armanti Edwards wins 2009 Walter Payton Award".
  6. Chiusano, Anthony. (January 5, 2018). "Sam Houston State QB Jeremiah Briscoe wins FCS Walter Payton Award for second straight year".
  7. Chiusano, Anthony. (January 10, 2020). "North Dakota State QB Trey Lance wins 2019 FCS Walter Payton Award".
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