Jake Majors named a Jason Witten Man of the Year semifinalist
Texas center Jake Majors was named a semifinalist for the Jason Witten Man of the Year Award, members of the honor’s selection committee announced Wednesday. Majors is one of 20 college football players to be named a semifinalist. The award is given to honor exemplary leadership by a college player.
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“I’m honored to announce the semifinalists for the Collegiate Man of the Year,” said Witten in a statement. “These twenty young men perfect examples of what makes college football so great. They have all demonstrated exceptional leadership and character, often while overcoming large challenges. They are great representatives for their schools and the game of football, and I commend all nominees for getting to this point.”
Texas QB Sam Ehlinger won the honor in 2021.
The award released details as to why Majors was one of 20 up for the honor.
“The experienced leader on the top-ranked Longhorns’ offensive front, Majors has started 48 games in his career, is a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy and is on the watch list for the Rimington Trophy, given to the nation’s top center. As a group, the Texas offensive line is on this year’s Joe Moore Award Midseason Honor Roll after having been a semifinalist for the award last year. Majors was also a second-team Academic All-American last season and was a three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team selection. Majors is a member of the Texas’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for three years and an active member of the Silver Spurs, which is an honorary service organization that seeks to provide a transformative learning experience that empowers students to become agents of positive change in their communities.”
The full list of semifinalists includes: Justin Barron (Syracuse), Dylan Black (Oregon State), Brady Cook (Missouri), Dontay Corleone (Cincinnati), Ajani Cornelius (Oregon), Luke Deal (Auburn), Jacob Gardner (Colorado State), Ahmed Hassanein (Boise State), Seth Henigan (Memphis), Isaiah Jacobs (UAB), Bru McCoy (Tennessee), Devin Neal (Kansas), Kaimon Rucker (North Carolina), Cody Simon (Ohio State), Logan Taylor (Hawai’i), Dante Trader, Jr. (Maryland), Jalon Walker (Georgia), J.J. Weaver (Kentucky) and Jackson Woodard (UNLV).
Compiled by a subset of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Selection Committee, the semifinalists have all demonstrated a record of leadership by exhibiting exceptional courage, integrity and sportsmanship both on and off the field, per release.
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Three finalists will be named for the award on Monday, December 16. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on February 12, 2025, per release.
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Per release, the winner of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year will also receive a $10,000 contribution in his name to his school’s athletic scholarship fund. The contribution will be made by Jason Witten’s SCORE Foundation, the official charity of Jason and his wife Michelle. The SCORE Foundation, founded in 2007, has positively impacted tens of thousands of children and families in Texas and Tennessee over the last 16 years. The foundation operates its nationally-recognized SCOREkeepers program, which places trained male mentors on staff to work with children at family violence shelters, at nine shelters in the two states.
