NEW YORK — BYU center Bruce Mitchell was named to the 2025 Rimington Trophy Watchlist on Thursday. The trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I football.
The Rimington Trophy committee works closely with Pro Football Focus to determine its official watchlist recognizing the top centers in Division I football. PFF grades every player on every play of every game on how well they execute their given assignment. That play-by-play grading allows the Trophy committee to create a watchlist based both on nominations from the schools and data provided by PFF.
Mitchell, a 6-foot-4, 305-pound junior from Kamas, Utah, has been added as an official candidate for the 2025 award in his first full season as the starting center after replacing three-time Rimington Trophy Watchlist honoree Connor Pay. Mitchell has been rated the sixth-highest graded center in the country this season by Pro Football and Sports Network as well as the top-rated power-4 conference center in the West in the Nov. 5 Pro Football Focus rankings with a 78.7 grade.
The Rimington Trophy is named after Dave Rimington, a two-time Consensus All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982. Rimington also became the only two-time winner of the John Outland Trophy, presented annually to college football’s top interior lineman.
At the conclusion of the 2025 season, the Rimington Trophy Committee will use three prestigious All-America teams to determine a winner—Walter Camp Foundation, Sporting News and Football Writers Association of America. The center with the most first-team All-America votes will be awarded the trophy.
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