ANNAPOLIS, Md.-- College Sports Communicators in association with The Associated Press (AP) and Fiesta Sports Foundation, today released a "Watch List" of 75 college football student-athletes from 51 different schools currently under consideration for the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year Award. 
 
Included on that list is Navy junior safety Seth English, who missed all of 2024 with a knee injury.  A 2023 graduate of Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind., English attended P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville, Fla. his first three years of high school where he was a three-sport athlete who earned letters in basketball (3), football (2) and track & field (1).
 
English garnered First-Team All-County football honors as a junior and helped lead Jefferson to the Sectional Championship his senior year.
 
English's father, Ron, who is a 1991 graduate of Cal and played football for the Bears (1987-90), is in his third year as the defensive coordinator at Louisville.  He he has had previous coaching stints at San Diego State (1996-97), Arizona State (1998-02), Michigan (2003-07), Louisville (2008), Eastern Michigan (2009-13, head coach), San Jose State (2016), Mississippi State (2017), Florida (2018-20) and Purdue (2021-22).
 
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.  
 
College Sports Communicators is the premier membership association for all strategic, creative and digital professionals working in intercollegiate athletics across all levels for colleges, universities and conferences across the United States and Canada. CSC provides year-round leadership, community, professional development/education, recognition and advocacy for its 4,700 members. Founded in 1957 as the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the organization rebranded in 2022 to position itself as a more inclusive organization for communicators in all types of roles and to lead an industry change where strategic and creative professionals are more aligned. CSC's signature work includes the annual CSC Unite convention each June and the administration of the prestigious Academic All-America® program and Hall of Fame. Since 1952, more than 44,000 of the world's most elite student-athletes have been recognized with Academic All-America status in all sports. To learn more, visit CollegeSportsCommunicators.com.