Tajh Boyd named as a Johnny Unitas Golden Arm finalist

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BALTIMORE, MD (11/6/13) --- Narrowed from an original field of 30 of the country’s top

college quarterbacks, there are now 10 candidates remaining for the 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden

Arm Award?.

The 10 finalists for this year’s Golden Arm Award are:

Tajh BoydTajh Boyd
RS Sr. Quarterback
#10 6-1, 225
Hampton, VA
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Derek Carr, Fresno State

Taylor Kelly, Arizona State

Jordan Lynch, Northern Illinois

Sean Mannion, Oregon State

AJ McCarron, Alabama

Aaron Murray, Georgia

Keith Price, Washington

Connor Shaw, South Carolina

Keith Wenning, Ball State

Named after the man many refer to as the greatest quarterback ever to play the game of football,

the prestigious Golden Arm Award is presented annually by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm

Educational Foundation, Inc. and Transamerica?.

Candidates for the Golden Arm Award – which has been presented at the end of each college

football season since 1987 – must be college seniors or fourth-year juniors on schedule to

graduate with their class. In addition to the accomplishments on the field, candidates are judged

on their character, citizenship, scholastic achievement, and leadership qualities.

The 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award? will be presented at a ceremony on Friday,

December 13 (Note New Date), in Baltimore, MD. For the 2013 Golden Arm Award ceremony,

The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. and Transamerica? will be

returning to The Embassy Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor & Grand Historic Venue (formerly The

Tremont Grand), where the ceremony was held from 2006 until 2010.

Previous winners of the Golden Arm Award include: Peyton Manning (Tennessee, 1997);

Carson Palmer (USC, 2002); Eli Manning (Ole Miss, 2003); Matt Ryan (Boston College, 2007);

Colt McCoy (Texas, 2009); and Andrew Luck (Stanford, 2011). Last year’s winner, Collin Klein

of Kanas State, was a Second Team All-American (AP) and the 2012 Big 12 Offensive Player of

the Year (AP).

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