{"id":47557,"date":"2018-07-18T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47557"},"modified":"2018-07-18T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:30:33","slug":"rebel-wide-receiver-a-j-brown-named-to-watch-list-for-prestigious-maxwell-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/rebel-wide-receiver-a-j-brown-named-to-watch-list-for-prestigious-maxwell-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Wide Receiver A.J. Brown Named to Watch List for Prestigious Maxwell Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">University, Miss. (OMSI) \u2013 <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> wide receiver <strong>A.J. Brown<\/strong> was recently announced as a member of the watch list for the 82nd annual <strong>Maxwell Award<\/strong> by the <strong>Maxwell Football Club<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Maxwell Award, named in honor of <strong>Robert W. \u201cTiny\u201d Maxwell<\/strong>, has been given to America\u2019s College Player of the Year since 1937. The Maxwell Football Club, founded in 1935, is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the oldest football club in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Brown, a preseason first team All-American by multiple publications, finished the 2017 season as the Ole Miss single-season record-holder in receiving yards (1,252) and tied for the top spot in receiving touchdowns (11). He was tops in the<strong> SEC<\/strong> and ranked sixth nationally in receiving yards per game (104.3) during his sophomore campaign in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">His six 100-yard receiving games tied for best in a single season, equaling <strong>Laquon Treadwell<\/strong>\u2019s mark in 2015. The <strong>2017 Conerly Trophy<\/strong> winner finished third on the single-season record charts in receptions (75).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Former Rebel <strong>Eli Manning<\/strong> earned the Maxwell Award trophy following his All-America 2003 senior season, becoming the first Ole Miss player to receive the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced October 29, 2018, while the three finalists for the award will be unveiled November 19, 2018. The winner of the 2018 Maxwell Award will be announced as part of the <strong>Home Depot College Football Awards Show<\/strong> held on December 6, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss will open the 2018 season versus <strong>Texas Tech<\/strong> in the <strong>AdvoCare Texas Kickoff<\/strong> in <strong>Houston<\/strong> on September 1. Kickoff is slated for 11 am and will be televised on ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Follow Ole Miss Football on Twitter (@OleMissFB), Facebook and Instagram. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OleMissSports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.OleMissSports.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University, Miss. (OMSI) \u2013 Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown was recently announced as a member of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12990,7749,12992,12989,4103,12991,1647,12986,12987,7067,12988,2311,3594],"class_list":["post-47557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-2017-conerly-trophy","tag-a-j-brown","tag-advocare-texas-kickoff","tag-college-player-of-the-year","tag-eli-manning","tag-home-depot-college-football-awards-show","tag-laquon-treadwell","tag-maxwell-award","tag-maxwell-football-club","tag-ole-miss","tag-robert-w-tiny-maxwell","tag-sec","tag-texas-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AJ-Brown-Watchlist.jpeg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}