PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- Everywhere you look, there is abundant offensive talent across FCS college football.And it's usually found settling into an opponent's end zone.
The 2015 season won't be easy on defensive coordinators as nine of the 13 FCS conferences return their offensive player of the year and 12 players who were finalists for national player of the year honors last season are back. They were among the 22 players nominated Monday to the STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year Watch List, including one from each FCS conference.
The returning finalists included 2014 national player of the year John Robertson of Villanova. The 6-foot-1, 222-pound senior quarterback hopes to build on - if it's possible - a season in which he passed for 35 touchdowns against only three interceptions and surpassed 1,000 rushing yards for the third straight season while adding another 11 touchdowns.
A concussion kept Robertson on the sideline last December when Villanova was knocked out of the FCS playoff quarterfinals, so he will return this season with some unfinished business on his checklist. But there are numerous All-American, all-conference, and, well, all-everything to-their-team type of players returning this season. Other 2014 finalists named to the preseason watch list were quarterbacks Jacob Huesman of Chattanooga, Vad Lee of James Madison, Dakota Prukop of Montana State and Alex Ross of Coastal Carolina. Also returning were running backs Marshaun Coprich of Illinois State, Khairi Dickson of Saint Francis, Chase Edmonds of Fordham, Connor Kacsor of Dayton, Dy'Shawn Mobley of Eastern Kentucky and Herb Walker Jr. of Morgan State, as well as Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp.
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