– Colorado senior running backis one of 85 players named Monday to the 81st annual Maxwell Award watch list, the Maxwell Football Club announced.The Maxwell Award, named in honor of Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell, has been given to America's College Player of the Year since 1937.The Pac-12 Conference had 11 players named to the preseason watch list and Lindsay was one of six running backs from the league to be selected. Of the five other players from the conference to make the list, four were quarterbacks and the last was Washington State offensive tackle Cody O'Connell.After garnering second-team All-Pac-12 honors a year ago when he led the league with 16 rushing touchdowns, Lindsay enters his senior season with a head of steam.Lindsay ranks ninth among all returning FBS players in career all-purpose yardage with 4,195 by the NCAA count (CU's count is 4,029 yards since Colorado does not include bowl statistics in official statistical records).That all-purpose figure has him within range of breaking CU's all-time record, one of many records the Denver South High prospect has on his radar for his final fall in Boulder.In the CU record books, Lindsay ranks third in all-purpose yardage, 10th in yards from scrimmage (2,924), 13th all-time in rushing (2,233 yards), 23rd in scoring (144 points), 24th in receptions and 42nd in receiving yardage (719). Again, the numbers do not take into account bowl statistics.Lindsay will need 800 yards exactly to break the CU record for career all-purpose yardage, which Rodney Stewart (2008-11) currently owns at 4,828. He would need to rush for 1,708 yards in 2017 to surpass Eric Bieniemy (1987-90) as the all-time leading rusher in Buffalo history.Last season, Lindsay ranked third in the conference with 1,189 rushing yards. If he can repeat with another 1,000-yard rushing season, he would be the first Colorado player to run for over 1,000 yards in consecutive seasons (Bieniemy is the only CU player with two 1,000-yard seasons, doing so in 1988 and 1990).Lindsay's 47 receptions last season set a school record for the most by a running back and he has caught 93 passes in his career (counting bowl statistics). That ranks as second most among all returning FBS running backs, trailing only Southern Miss' Ito Smith. Smith, who is also on the Maxwell Award watch list, has 100 receptions in his career.Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced Oct. 30, 2017, while the three finalists for each award will be unveiled Nov. 20, 2017. The winner of the 2017 Maxwell Award will be announced as part of the Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on Dec. 7, 2017. The formal presentations of these awards will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala hosted by Tropicana Hotel & Casino Atlantic City on March 9, 2018.The Maxwell and Bednarik Awards are members of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA) which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 23 awards boast over 745 years of tradition-selection excellence. Visit www.NCFAA.org to learn more about our story.The members of the NCFAA are unveiling their preseason watch lists over a 12-day period thismonth. Seventeen of the association's 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA hasspearheaded a coordinated effort to promote each award's preseason candidates. Following is the entire 2016 preseason watch list calendar:Monday July 10: Bednarik Award / Maxwell AwardTuesday July 11: Mackey Award / Rimington TrophyWednesday July 12: Lou Groza Award / Ray Guy AwardThursday July 13: Bronko Nagurski Trophy / Outland TrophyFriday July 14: Jim Thorpe AwardMonday July 17: Butkus Award / Paul Hornung AwardTuesday July 18: Biletnikoff Award / Wuerffel TrophyWednesday July 19: Davey O'Brien AwardThursday July 20: Doak Walker AwardFriday July 21: Walter Camp Award