FB's Hal Presley Included on Comeback Player of the Year Award Watch List

FB's Hal Presley Included on Comeback Player of the Year Award Watch List

8/7/2024 8:30:00 AM | Football

Presley is one of 90 student-athletes under consideration for 2024 honor

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Baylor football senior wide receiver Hal Presley has been named to the 2024 Comeback Player of the Year Award Watch List, as announced Wednesday by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA), in association with The Associated Press (AP) and the Fiesta Bowl Organization.

Since 2018, the award has recognized college football student-athletes for overcoming injury, illness, or other circumstances. At the conclusion of each season, in a vote by a panel of college football writers, editors and sports information directors, three college football student-athletes are honored as Comeback Player of the Year Award winners at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl.

Presley started in each of BU's first six games of the 2023 season, catching 17 passes for 222 yards before suffering a season-ending injury. He was previously named an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection in 2022 after racking up 382 receiving yards on 32 receptions with four touchdowns, including a catch in all 13 of Baylor's games. In three seasons with the Bears, Presley has caught 50 passes for 619 yards and four TDs. The native of Mansfield, Texas, enters the 2024 season healthy and is projected to be a key member of BU's rotation at wide receiver.

Presley is one of 90 college football student-athletes from 68 different schools named to the preseason watch list.

Baylor's most recent Comeback Player of the Year Award winner was Terrel Bernard in 2021, as the star linebacker earned honorable mention praise and a $2,500 donation to Baylor's general scholarship fund was made in his name.

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2024 Baylor Football Preseason Honors
Monaray Baldwin, WR
Bruce Feldman's Freaks List (No. 41)
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (WR)
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (WR)

Campbell Barrington, OL
DCTF Preseason All-Texas First Team (OT)
DCTF Lone Star Top 50 (No. 35)

Devyn Bobby, S
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (S)

Josh Cameron, WR
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (PR)
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (PR)
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (PR)
Phil Steele Preseason All-America Fourth Team (PR)

Alvin Ebosele, OL
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (OL)

Dequan Finn, QB
Maxwell Award Preseason Watch List

Caden Jenkins, CB
DCTF Preseason All-Texas First Team (CB)
Pick Six Previews Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (DB)
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Third Team (CB)
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (CB)
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (CB)

Matt Jones, LB
DCTF Preseason All-Texas First Team (LB)
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (LB)
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (LB)
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Third Team (LB)

Kyler Jordan, OLB
Wuerffel Trophy Watch List

Cooper Lanz, DT
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (DT)

Steve Linton, OLB
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Third Team (EDGE)

Hal Presley, WR
CSC Comeback Player of the Year Award Watch List

Coleton Price, OL
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (OL)

Richard Reese, RB/KR
Paul Hornung Award Preseason Watch List
Jet Award Preseason Watch List
DCTF Lone Star Top 50 (No. 43)
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big 12 First Team (KR)
Athlon Sports Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (KR)
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (KR)

Kaden Sieracki, OG
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Third Team (OG)

Carl Williams IV, CB
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team (CB)

TEAM AWARDS
College Football Network Preseason All-Big 12 Defensive Line of the Year

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