Montana State’s Tommy Mellott is the 2024 Walter Camp FCS Player of the Year, presented by Crabtree Lexus of New Haven
Montana State senior quarterback Tommy Mellott (Butte, MT) has been selected as Walter Camp’s 2024 Football Championship Subdivision Player of the Year, presented by Crabtree Lexus of New Haven.
This is the second year the Walter Camp Foundation has given this award – former Monmouth running back Jaden Shirden earned the honor in 2023.
The 2024 Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year, Mellott is a finalist for the Walter Payton Award as the top offensive performer in the FCS. Through 15 games, Mellott has thrown for a career-best 2,564 yards with 29 touchdowns and just two interceptions. He has accumulated an FCS-best 180.1 pass-efficiency rating. Mellott was also named to the 2024 Walter Camp FCS All-America team.
Mellott has also rushed for 915 yards — second-most of a quarterback in the nation — and 14 touchdowns. He has been involved in 43 of MSU’s 83 total touchdowns this season.
Entering the title game, Mellott’s career rankings in Bobcat history include: second in quarterback wins (32), second in rushing touchdowns (42), third in total offense (9,198), fourth in rushing yards (3,388), fifth in 100-yard rushing games (14), fifth in passing yards (5,810), and fifth in passing touchdowns (51).
An outstanding student-athlete, Mellott is a financial engineering major and was named the recipient of the Doris Robinson Award, which is given each year to the FCS player who exemplifies excellence on the field, in the classroom and the community. He is also a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree.
Mellott played scholastically at Butte High School (2016-2019), totaling more than 7,000 yards passing and 2,000 rushing during his career for the Bulldogs.
Walter Camp, “The Father of American football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Visit www.waltercamp.org for more information.
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