Tulane's Sincere Haynesworth earns place on Rimington Trophy Preseason Watch List

NEW YORK, NY – Tulane center Sincere Haynesworth has been named to the 2023 Rimington Trophy Preseason Watch List.

The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in the NCAA Division I College Football. This year the Rimington Committee worked with Pro Football Focus (PFF) to narrow down its list of top centers nationally. PFF grades every player on every play of every game on how well they execute their given assignment. The play-by-play grading allowed the Trophy Committee to create a watch list based on nominations from the schools and date provided by the PFF. Once the season begins, schools will be able to nominate their centers for late additions based on in-season merit.

While more than a dozen All-America teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy Committee uses these prestigious teams to determine the winner (Walter Camp Foundation, Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America).
The full list consists of 40 centers nationally. Haynesworth is one of three from the AAC named to the watch list.

Haynesworth was a First Team All-American Athletic Conference (AAC) selection in 2022. He played and started all 14 games at center. He aided the Tulane offense to average 36 points, 441.4 yards while totaling 30 passing touchdowns and 34 rushing touchdowns in 2022. Haynesworth blocked in front of the 2022 American Athletic Conference (AAC) Offensive Player of the Year in Tyjae Spears. He also served as one of the team’s four elected captains for the 2022 season.

This season, Tulane brings back four of the team’s five starters on the offensive line (Haynesworth, Prince Pines, Josh Remetich, Rashad Green), two of the team’s top three rushers (Michael Pratt and Shaadie Clayton-Johnson), the starting quarterback (Pratt), two of the top four receivers (Jha’Quan Jackson and Lawrence Keys III), the team’s punter (Casey Glover), the team’s kicker (Valentino Ambrosio), the team’s leader in interceptions (Jarius Monroe) and three of the five leading defensive players in tackles for loss (Patrick Jenkins, Darius Hodges and Keith Cooper Jr.).

In 2022, Tulane’s football team completed an unprecedented 12-2 campaign, culminating with an American Athletic Conference title and a 46-45 win over USC in the Cotton Bowl. At season’s end, the Green Wave finished with a ninth overall ranking, the second-highest in program history. Tulane opens the 2023 season at Yulman Stadium hosting South Alabama on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.

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About the Rimington TrophyThe Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I College Football. Since its inception, the award has raised over $5 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy’s only two-time winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman. For more on the Rimington Trophy, visit www.rimingtontrophy.com