Sophomore Jake Hanson was named to the preseason watch list for the award honoring college football's best center.

Oregon sophomore Jake Hanson is on the fall watch list for the award honoring college football's best center, as announced Tuesday by the Rimington Trophy Committee.

Hanson earned honorable mention all-Pac-12 accolades after starting all 12 games for the Ducks as a redshirt freshman in 2016. The human physiology major was also second-team academic all-conference.

Of the 70 players on the Rimington Trophy fallwatch list, just 10 are sophomores, including Hanson. Hanson and his linemates helped Oregon average 226.42 rushing yards per game in 2016, second-most in the Pac-12 Conference.

The Rimington Trophy, first awarded in 2000, is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation and has helped raise nearly $3 million for the cystic fibrosis community. It is named for former Nebraska all-American Dave Rimington, who won the Outland Trophy as college football's top interior lineman in 1981 and 1982.

The Rimington Trophy winner is selected using all-America teams compiled by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America. The Rimington's committee holds a vote in the event of a tie.