Syracuse Football: OL Carlos Vettorello on watch list for Rimington Trophy

Syracuse football offensive lineman Carlos Vettorello is in the running for a national honor as it pertains to the sport’s most-outstanding center.

Carlos Vettorello, a redshirt sophomore offensive lineman for Syracuse football, is on the fall watch list for the 2020 Rimington Trophy, an award doled out every year to the country’s premier center.

The Rimington Trophy’s Web site has unveiled all of the members of this watch list, and Vettorello’s inclusion also got confirmed in a press release from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Here’s some information from the award’s committee, which “adjusted its procedures with consideration to the COVID-19 pandemic, choosing to hold its 2020 watch list until play began and a plan was implemented across all Division I conferences. This year, it accepted all nominations from eligible Division I programs with the goal of highlighting as many collegiate centers as possible …”

According to his bio on cuse.com, the 6-foot-4, 289-pound Vettorello is from Royal Oak, Mich., and went to the University of Detroit Jesuit High School, where recruiting services rated him as a three-star prospect in the 2018 cycle.

Syracuse football offensive lineman Carlos Vettorello is on the fall watch list for the 2020 Rimington Trophy.

Vettorello redshirted in 2018, when Syracuse football recorded a 10-3 mark, won a bowl game, and finished ranked No. 15 in the major national polls. Vettorello has logged action at both tackle and center throughout his tenure on the Hill.

In 2019, as the Orange went 5-7, he started all 12 contests, primarily at left tackle, as well as some games at right tackle and also at center.

The ACC media statement says that 13 players in this conference are on the watch list for this season’s Rimington Trophy, which is tied for the most of any league around the country, along with the Southeastern Conference.

The Rimington Trophy committee says it relies on the Walter Camp Foundation, the Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America to help determine its annual winner.

A member of the National College Football Awards Association, the Rimington Trophy is named after Dave Rimington, a consensus first-team All-American center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he also became the John Outland Trophy’s only two-time victor as the nation’s top collegiate interior lineman.

A huge congratulations to Carlos on his inclusion for the Rimington Trophy watch list!