Moss Selected as a William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalist

(IRVING, Texas) – Selected as the best and brightest from the college gridiron, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced the 201 semifinalists for the 2023 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments. The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership. Carnegie Mellon's senior offensive lineman Dustin Moss is one of 48 Division III players on the list of 201 student-athletes.

Of the 48 Division III student-athletes, Moss is joined by Declan O'Brien of Allegheny, Marco Toth of Case Western Reserve, Justin Johns of Washington & Jefferson and Carter Chinn of Westminster as the five semifinalists from the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).

Moss has appeared in 25 contests with 16 starts and has blocked for an All-American running back who became the fifth player in school history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season and currently ranks eighth on the all-time career rushing list.

The senior, a College Sports Communicators Academic All-American a season ago, carries a 4.0 GPA as a mechanical engineering and robotics major. Moss is one of 10 semifinalists that have a perfect 4.0 GPA and one of 24 that have earned Academic All-America recognition.

Moss is a three-time PAC honor roll honoree and for the last two summers has interned as a mechanical engineer and controls analysis engineer for Lockheed Martin. He is a member of the Space Robotics and Rocket Command clubs at Carnegie Mellon. In March of 2023, he worked on a Search and Rescue Teleoperated Robot project where he was tasked in a team of three to engineer a teleoperated robot capable of navigating a scaled-down building in complete darkness. Moss also volunteers at the Western Spring Sectional competition of the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania.

To be nominated for the William V. Campbell Trophy, student-athletes need to be submitted by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each. Candidates for the awards must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. The class is selected each year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is comprised of a nationally recognized group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics administrators.

Named in honor of the late William V. Campbell, the former chairman of Intuit, former player and head coach at Columbia University and the 2004 recipient of the NFF's Gold Medal, The William V. Campbell Trophy has become the most prestigious and desirable "academic" award in college football. The trophy recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.

During the past 65 years, the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards have truly become one of the most prestigious academic honors in all of college sports, distributing $12.3 million to 906 outstanding individuals since its inception.

Launched in 1959, the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards program became the first initiative in history to award postgraduate scholarships based on both a player's academic and athletic accomplishments. The Campbell Trophy, first awarded in 1990, adds to the program's prestige. Past recipients include two Rhodes Scholars, a Rhodes Scholar finalist, two Heisman Trophy winners and eight first-round NFL draft picks.

The NFF will announce 12-15 finalists on October 25, and each of them will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments. The finalists will travel to the ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas for the 65th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 5, where their accomplishments will be highlighted in front of one of the most powerful audiences in all of sports. Live during the event, one member of the class will be declared as the winner of the 34th Campbell Trophy and have his postgraduate scholarship increased to $25,000.