Alabama's Antoine Caldwell on Rimington Trophy List

By: Capstone Report

Alabama’s senior center, Antoine Caldwell, is on the 2008 Rimington Trophy Watch List.

The Rimington Trophy is an annual award given out to the nation’s best center. Caldwell joins four other SEC players on the Spring Watch List.

Caldwell, a graduate of Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, is a three-year starter for the Crimson Tide, and has played center, left guard and right guard during his time in Tuscaloosa.

He started 32 consecutive games before a suspension prior to the Tennessee game. 

Past recipients of the Rimington Trophy include Nebraska’s Dominic Raiola, Ohio State’s LeCharles Bentley, Miami’s Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech’s Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan’s David Baas and LSU’s Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota’s Greg Eslinger, West Virginia’s Dan Mozes, and Arkansas’ Jonathan Luigs.

Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy’s only double winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman.

There are a total of 42 players on the watch list.

Listed below are the members of the 2008 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List.

• Alabama Antoine Caldwell 6′3″ 292 lbs. Senior
• Arizona Blake Kerley 6′2″ 285 lbs. Junior
• Arkansas Jonathan Luigs 6′4″ 314 lbs. Senior
• Auburn Jason Bosley 6′2″ 281 lbs. Senior
• Baylor J.D. Walton 6′3″ 302 lbs. Junior
• California Alex Mack 6′5″ 316 lbs. Senior
• Central Michigan Colin Miller 6′3″ 280 lbs. Sophomore
• Colorado Daniel Sanders 6′3″ 325 lbs. Senior
• Connecticut Keith Gray 6′2″ 287 lbs. RS Senior
• Florida International Brad Serini 6′4″ 275 lbs. Sophomore
• Florida State Ryan McMahon 6′3″ 275 lbs. Sophomore
• Hawaii John Estes 6′2″ 290 lbs. Junior
• Houston Carl Barnett 6′3″ 285 lbs. Junior
• Idaho Adam Korby 6′2″ 292 lbs. Junior
• Indiana Alex Perry 6′7″ 292 lbs. Sophomore
• Kansas Ryan Cantrell 6′3″ 295 lbs. Senior
• Kansas State Jordan Bedore 6′3″ 308 lbs. Senior
• Louisiana-Lafayette Chris Fisher 6′2″ 280 lbs. Junior
• Louisville Eric Wood 6′4″ 309 lbs. Senior
• LSU Brett Helms 6′2″ 283 lbs. Senior
• Maryland Edwin Williams 6′2″ 315 lbs. Senior
• Memphis Philip Beliles 6′5″ 270 lbs. Senior
• Nevada Dominic Green 6′3″ 295 lbs. Senior
• Ohio State Jim Cordle 6′4″ 297 lbs. Junior
• Oklahoma Jon Cooper 6′2″ 289 lbs. Senior
• Oklahoma State Andrew Lewis 6′5″ 290 lbs. Junior
• Penn State A.Q. Shipley 6′1″ 293 lbs. Junior
• Rutgers Ryan Blaszczyk 6′4″ 285 lbs. RS Junior
• SMU Mitch Enright 6′2″ 275 lbs. Junior
• South Florida Jake Griffin 6′4″ 307 lbs. Senior
• Stanford Alex Fletcher 6′3″ 295 lbs. Senior
• TCU Blake Schlueter 6′3″ 272 lbs. Senior
• Temple Alex Derenthal 6′4″ 294 lbs. RS Senior
• Tennessee Josh McNeil 6′4″ 280 lbs. Junior
• Texas Chris Hall 6′4″ 300 lbs. Junior
• Troy Danny Franks 6′3″ 308 lbs. Junior
• USC Kristopher O’Dowd 6′5″ 300 lbs. Sophomore
• Utah State Ryan Tonnemacher 6′3″ 292 lbs. Senior
• UTEP Robby Felix 6′3″ 295 lbs. Senior
• Washington Juan Garcia 6′3″ 315 lbs. Senior
• Washington State Kenny Alfred 6′2″ 310 lbs. RS Junior
• West Virginia Mike Dent 6′3″ 300 lbs. Senior