North Carolina State University Athletics
Harris on 2005 Rimington Trophy Watch List
8/18/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Aug. 18, 2005
Raleigh, N.C. - NC State junior Leroy Harris has been named to the watch list for the Dave Rimington Trophy which is awarded annually to the top collegiate center. The watch list will be updated throughout the season in the weekly Rimington Reports. Awarded annually to the best center in the country, the Dave Rimington Trophy enters the 2005 season with a strong field of potential stand-out centers.
Harris will look to anchor the Pack's offensive line this upcoming season. He started all 13 games at guard as a redshirt freshman in 2003, and also the first five games of last year. Harris then moved over and played center in three contests due to injuries along the Pack's offensive line, but then suffered a shoulder injury and missed the final four games. He earned honorable mention All-ACC honors last season despite missing those four games, and led the Pack in Raleigh Rails (driving a defender back at least five yards) for the second straight year.
The Rimington Trophy recipient is determined by a consensus of the four All-America teams: The Walter Camp Football Foundation, America Football Coaches Association, Football Writers Association of America, and "The Sporting News."
The six-year old trophy is presented byCanon, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, USA and Black & Decker. The award is hosted by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Esiason, created his foundation in 1993 to support research and treatment of cystic fibrosis. Esiason and Dave Rimington were teammates on the Cincinnati Bengals from 1984-87.
Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and '82 - years in which he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's premiere college interior lineman.
