10 finalists for Minnesota’s Mr. Football announced

The Minnesota Football Coaches Association announced Tuesday the 10 finalists for the 2024 Mr. Football award.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
November 13, 2024 at 4:42PM
Blaine quarterback Sam Shaughnessy (16) breaks away for a touchdown run against Centennial in the first quarter Friday, Sep. 08, 2023, at Centennial High School in Circle Pines, Minn. ]
Blaine quarterback Sam Shaughnessy (16), shown in 2023, is a finalist for Minnesota's Mr. Football award, which goes to the top senior football player in the state. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Minnesota Football Coaches Association this week released the names of its 10 finalists for its Mr. Football award, meant to recognize the coaches choice for the top senior football player in Minnesota.

The award, which launched in 2004, will be announced at the Mr. Football banquet Sunday, Dec. 15, at 10 a.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Park Place Hotel in St. Louis Park.

Past recipients include Cretin-Derham Hall’s Michael Floyd (2007), Eden Prairie’s JD Spielman (2015), SMB’s Jalen Suggs (2019) and Rosemount’s Jake Ratzlaff (2020). Chanhassen running back Maxwell Woods won the award in 2023. The first winner of the award was East Grand Forks quarterback Nick Mertens.

The 2024 nominees:

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