• football. The award, named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus, is presented by the Butkus Foundation...
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    Conference. Butkus was named college football's Lineman of the Year in 1964. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983. Butkus was selected...
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  • football. The award, named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus, is presented by the Butkus Foundation...
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    played college football at NC State, winning the Chuck Bednarik Award and Butkus Award in 2023. Wilson was selected by the Steelers in the third round...
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    He was a unanimous All-American for the Iowa Hawkeyes, winning the Butkus Award in 2022. Campbell was selected by the Lions in the first round of the...
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  • League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia, winning the 2021 Butkus Award before being selected by the Eagles in the third round of the 2022 NFL...
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    college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he won the Butkus Award and was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous All-American...
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  • USA Today High School Defensive Player of the Year and won the Dick Butkus Award. A five star recruit, he committed to University of Oregon to play college...
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    college football for the UCLA Bruins. As a senior in 2014, he won the Butkus Award as the nation's top collegiate linebacker. Kendricks was selected by...
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    T. J. Watt (category National Football League Defensive Player of the Year Award winners)
    Football Reference. Retrieved December 7, 2023. "Winners - The Butkus Award". Butkus Award. Retrieved December 7, 2023. "Hunt 2017 Rookie of the Year; All-Rookie...
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    Patrick Willis (category National Football League Defensive Rookie of the Year Award winners)
    at Ole Miss, he received the collegiate version of the Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Award as the nation's top linebacker. A year later as a member...
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    Manti Te'o (category Walter Camp Award winners)
    named one of 16 semifinalists for both the Butkus Award (Best Collegiate Linebacker) and the Bednarik Award for top College defensive player. He was also...
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  • for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and became the first Buckeye to win the Butkus Award. His playing career was shortened due to a neck injury. Katzenmoyer was...
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    loss and a sack. Queen entered his junior year on the watchlist for the Butkus Award. Queen finished the regular season with 69 tackles (eight for a loss)...
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  • for 1,784 yards with 26 touchdowns as a running back. Bowen won the Butkus Award, given to the top high school linebacker in the country, and was named...
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    by Parade, USA Today, and EA Sports. Hicks won the High School Dick Butkus Award in 2009. Hicks played college football at Texas from 2010 to 2014 under...
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    football, he won the Butkus Award as a senior, given to the best high school linebacker in the country, and was named the Mr. Football award winner for the...
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    have won the Dick Butkus Award twice: 1997: Andy Katzenmoyer 2007: James Laurinaitis Ohio State players have won the Jim Thorpe Award twice: 1998: Antoine...
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    Roquan Smith (category Brian Piccolo Award winners)
    Georgia Bulldogs. Smith became the first Georgia Bulldog to win the Butkus Award. Smith was introduced to organized football at the age of six. In the...
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    League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. A two-time Dick Butkus Award winner during his college football career at the University of Oklahoma...
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  • Heisman Trophy (redirect from Heisman award)
    interior lineman on either side of the ball has ever won the award. Legendary linebacker Dick Butkus placed sixth in 1963 and third in 1964 and could qualify...
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    recovery. Baun entered his redshirt senior season on the watchlist for the Butkus Award and was voted to be a team captain. He was named midseason All-American...
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  • The Paul Hornung Award is a college football award that was created in January 2010 by the Louisville Sports Commission in Louisville, Kentucky, with...
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    Penn State Nittany Lions, where he won the Chuck Bednarik Award twice and the Dick Butkus Award, and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the second round...
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    he played from 2013 to 2016. In his final season there he was awarded the Butkus Award, which is given to the nation's best linebacker. He was selected...
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    during his college career, including the Chuck Bednarik Award, Dick Butkus Award, and Lambert Award in 1999. He was an All-Big Ten selection, a first-team...
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  • Derrick Thomas (category National Football League Defensive Rookie of the Year Award winners)
    played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he won the Butkus Award, and was selected fourth overall by Kansas City in the 1989 NFL draft...
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    Von Miller (category National Football League Defensive Rookie of the Year Award winners)
    Texas A&M Aggies, where he earned consensus All-American honors and the Butkus Award. He was selected by the Denver Broncos second overall in the 2011 NFL...
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    Clemson in 2019 rather than enter the 2019 NFL draft. Simmons received the Butkus Award as the nation's best linebacker for his performance that year. After...
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  • cancellation of the awards, citing difficulty of maintaining the event without a title sponsor. The Touchdown Club of Columbus gave several awards to recognize...
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