The Sooners' first-year signal caller is up for college football's national player of the year award.
On Monday, Arnold landed on the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award, given to college football’s top player.“There’s a lot of pressure that comes with this position for sure," Arnold said in Dallas. "Again, at the end of the day, I just gotta go out and perform to the best of my abilities and hope I live up to that lineage.”backup as a true freshman last season.
In that game, Arnold passed for 361 yards and two touchdowns, but also threw three interceptions and lost a fumble. The 6-foot-1, 211-pound sophomore from Denton, TX, completed 44-of-69 passes for 563 yards with four TDs and three INTs last season. He also rushed for 31 yards and a touchdown. He signed with the Sooners as a 5-star prospect out of Guyer High School, where he was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2022. Arnold enrolled at OU in January 2023 and almost immediately assumed the backup role behind Gabriel last spring.John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers.
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