Haynes on Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list

Published 8:30 am Wednesday, August 6, 2025

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech running back Jamal Haynes (Loganville, Ga./Grayson H.S.) added another honor to his long list of preseason accolades on Monday when he was named to the official watch list for the 2025 Walter Camp Player of the Year award.

First awarded in 1967, the Walter Camp Player of the Year award is one of college football’s oldest and most prestigious honors. Haynes is one of 46 student-athletes on the official watch list.

A redshirt senior, Haynes enters the 2025 campaign as the first Georgia Tech running back to rush for at least 900 yards in back-to-back seasons since Jonathan Dwyer in 2008 and 2009. As a junior in 2024, he amassed 1,110 total yards from scrimmage (944 rushing, 166 receiving) and 12 touchdowns (nine rushing, three receiving), en route to earning all-Atlantic Coast Conference recognition for the second-straight year.

As a sophomore in 2023, Haynes moved from wide receiver to running back during fall camp and went on to become Georgia Tech’s first 1,000-yard rusher in six years. His 1,257 all-purpose yards in ’23 (1,053 rushing, 151 receiving and 47 on kickoff returns) included 128 in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl versus UCF. He was named MVP of the Yellow Jackets’ 30-17 Gasparilla Bowl victory.

Off the field, Haynes earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Georgia Tech in May, earning Dean’s List recognition with a 4.0 grade point average his final semester and earning admission to Tech’s MBA program this fall.

Haynes is also a member of the official watch list for the 2025 Maxwell Award (national player of the year) and a preseason all-ACC selection.

Georgia Tech has posted consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade and returns five all-ACC honorees from last season’s squad, including Keylan Rutledge, an all-America guard and first-team all-conference selection. Other top performers returning for the Yellow Jackets in 2025 include all-ACC selections DT Jordan van den Berg, LB Kyle Efford, Haynes and WR Malik Rutherford, as well as two of the league’s top quarterbacks in senior Haynes King and redshirt freshman Aaron Philo.