COLLEGE FOOTBALL AWARDS

Recognizes the nation's top defensive player, presented
by the Maxwell Memorial Football Club of Philadelphia.

Year - player, school

2023 - Payton Wilson, North Carolina State
2022 - Will Anderson Jr., Alabama
2021 - Jordan Davis, Georgia
2020 - Zaven Collins, Tulsa
2019 - Chase Young, Ohio State
2018 - Josh Allen, Kentucky
2017 - Minkah Fitzpatrick, Alabama
2016 - Jonathan Allen, Alabama
2015 - Tyler Matakevich, Temple
2014 - Scooby Wright, Arizona
2013 - Aaron Donald, Pittsburgh
2012 - Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
2011 - Tyrann Mathieu, LSU
2010 - Patrick Peterson, LSU
2009 - Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
2008 - Ray Maualuga, USC
2007 - Dan Connor, Penn State
2006 - Paul Posluszny, Penn State
2005 - Paul Posluszny, Penn State
2004 - David Pollack, Georgia
2003 - Teddy Lehman, Oklahoma
2002 - E.J. Henderson, Maryland
2001 - Julius Peppers, North Carolina 
2000 - Dan Morgan, Miami FL 
1999 - LaVar Arrington, Penn State 
1998 - Dat Nguyen, Texas A&M 
1997 - Charles Woodson, Michigan 
1996 - Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern 
1995 - Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern 
1994 - Warren Sapp, Miami FL 
1993 - Rob Waldrop, Arizona