Florida football’s junior center Harrison Moore was among 40 players named to the 2026 Rimington Trophy preseason watch list, the organization announced Thursday.
Moore, who transferred from Georgia Tech this past offseason, appeared in 11 games with the Yellow Jackets in 2025, making eight starts and taking 682 total snaps, while earning a 61.1 grade from PFF over 611 regular-season snaps. The 6-foot-4-inch, 293-pound center was part of an offensive line that allowed just nine sacks (0.69 per game) last season, helping his squad earn a spot among the 10 semifinalists for the Joe Moore Award, which is given to the best offensive line unit in college football.
The Trophy Committee worked with Pro Football Focus to narrow down its list to the top 40 centers. PFF grades every player on every play of every game on how well they execute their given assignment, and that play-by-play grading allowed the Trophy Committee to create a watchlist based both on nominations from the schools and data provided by PFF.
SEC centers on Rimington Trophy preseason watch list
About the Rimington Trophy
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the most outstanding center in NCAA Division I College Football. Since its inception, the award has raised over $5 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation.
Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy’s only two-time winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman.
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