Jackson Powers-Johnson receives Rimington Trophy after dominant season at Oregon
Jackson Powers-Johnson has received the highest honor that a center can receive in college football.
The Oregon lineman was announced as the winner of the Rimington Trophy on Friday evening during an awards show on ESPN.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Jackson Powers-Johnson is the winner of the @rimingtontrophy!#GoDucks x @BigJax58 pic.twitter.com/nWu0tzzZr8
— Oregon Football (@oregonfootball) December 9, 2023
Powers-Johnson beat out Michigan’s Drake Nugent and Georgia’s Sedrick Van Pran for the award, presented annually to the most outstanding center in college football.
This year was the first season in which Powers-Johnson was a full-time starter. The center finished the season with the highest pass-blocking grade (91.3), overall grade (83.2) and run-blocking grade (83.1) among all FBS centers, according to PFF. Powers-Johnson didn’t allow allow a sack and allowed just one pressure in 471 pass-blocking opportunities.
The center became the first Oregon Duck to win the award. Hroniss Grasu and Max Unger were both finalists, but neither Duck won the award.
Previous winners of the Rimington Trophy include Olusegun Oluwatimi, Tyler Linderbaum, and Landon Dickerson. The award has been given out annually since 2000, with Michigan, Ohio State, and Alabama all having 3 different players win the award.
The Oregon Ducks are in the running for the Joe Moore Award as well, which is annually given the nation’s best offensive line.