Navy senior quarterback Malcolm Perry made a name for himself during the 2019 season, to say the least.
Perry won American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors and led the Midshipmen to an 11-2 record, their best mark since 2015. He powered the Mids to a win against Army, breaking a three-game losing streak to the Black Knights and regaining the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy in the process. Oh, and he guided Navy to a 20-17 win in the Liberty Bowl against a Kansas State team that had beaten Oklahoma earlier in the year.
Navy landed at No. 20 in the season-ending Associated Press top-25 poll, the culmination of a remarkable turnaround after finishing the 2018 season 3-10.