ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Quarterback Blake Horvath (Hilliard, Ohio) and nose guard Landon Robinson (Fairlawn, Ohio) have unanimously been voted 2025 Navy football team captains by their teammates, head coach Brian Newberry announced this afternoon at the annual season-ending senior tribute.
Horvath threw a school-record tying 13 touchdown passes in 2024, tying Ricky Dobbs who threw 13 in 2010.
He accounted for 4 touchdowns in Navy's 31-13 victory over Army, rushing for 196 yards and 2 TDs on 24 carries, while throwing for 107 yards and 2 TDs. He scored the game-tying touchdown against Oklahoma on a school-record 95-yard touchdown run and then gave Navy the lead on a 6-yard scoring run with 4:34 remaining.
Horvath, who finished with 1,246 yards rushing last year, is the first Navy player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season since 2019 when Perry rushed for 2,017 yards. He is the first Navy quarterback to surpass 1,000 passing yards in a season since 2019 when Perry threw for 1,084 yards.
Horvath's 1,353 passing yards in 2024 are the most by a Navy player since Will Worth threw for 1,397 yards in 2016. Additionally, he is the third quarterback in school history to rush and pass for more than 1,200 yards in the same season, joining Keenan Reynolds in 2015 (1,203 pass, 1,373 rush) and Chris McCoy in 1997 (1,203 pass, 1,370 rush).
Horvath was named the 2024 Armed Forces Bowl Most Valuable Player, the 2024 Army-Navy Game Co-Most Valuable Player with Robinson, was a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback of the Year award and was named Academic All-District by College Sports Communicators. Horvath also got a 4.0 in the classroom in the fall.
He has started 13 games in his career and has scored a rushing touchdown in nine of them and has thrown a touchdown pass in seven of them. He has rushed for 1,429 yards and 17 touchdowns in his career and thrown for 1,437 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Robinson has also started 13 games in his career, starting every game last fall. He was named First-Team All-American Athletic Conference and First-Team All-East and was named 2024 Army-Navy Co-Most Valuable Player with Horvath.
Robinson is the strongest player on the team, squatting 650 pounds, benching 435 pounds and has a 33-inch vertical leap. He has been named to Bruce Feldman's "Freak's List" in the Athletic in each of the previous two years.
Robinson has recorded 89 tackles, 10 tackles for a loss and eight sacks in his career, which are incredible numbers for a nose guard who has played in just 25 games in his career.
Robinson is also dangerous with the ball in his hands, carrying the ball three times on fake punts for 87 yards.
Navy opens up the 2025 football campaign on August 30 against VMI at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. For ticket information, visit navysports.com or call 1-800-US4-NAVY.
