NEW ORLEANS, La. - The Walter Camp Football Foundation revealed the 2018 Walter Camp Award Watch List today, a group of 50 "players to watch" for its 2018 Player of the Year award and among them is Arkansas State’s Justice Hansen.

Hansen enters his final season with the Red Wolves having thrown at least one touchdown pass in 17 consecutive games and is coming off a junior season in which he was named the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Year. He also finished the year ranked among the nation’s top-20 candidates for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Ward, while setting a new single-season Arkansas State and Sun Belt Conference mark for touchdown passes with 37.
 
The Edmond, Okla., native also broke school records for completions (305) and passing yards (3,967) and ended the 2017 season having established eight new Arkansas State statistical record (five season records and three game records), while also tying another. Hansen ranked among the top-10 players in the nation in seven statistical categories, while leading all of the NCAA FBS division in points responsible for per game at 22.2.

The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semi-finalists in mid-November.  The 2018 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, which is voted on by the 129 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be announced live on ESPN on Thursday, December 6.  The winner will then receive his trophy at the Foundation’s 52^nd annual national awards banquet on January 12, 2019 in New Haven, Conn.