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College Football '07 Award Winners
Florida's Tim Tebow Wins Maxwell & O'Brien Awards
LSU's Glenn Dorsey wins Outland & Nagurski Trophies

Photo - Florida - QB Tim Tebow

players listed alphabetically)
List of all Finalists - x - This year's winner

Maxwell Award (best all-around player)

Dennis Dixon - QB - Oregon
Darren McFadden - RB - Arkansas
x - Tim Tebow - QB - Florida

Outland Trophy (best interior lineman)

Anthony Collins - OT - Kansas
x - Glenn Dorsey - DT - Louisiana St
Jake Long - OT - Michigan

Rotary Lombardi Winner
x - Glenn Dorsey - DT - LSU

Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award

Chase Daniel - Missouri
Dennis Dixon - Oregon
x - Tim Tebow - Florida

Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Winner
x - QB Matt Ryan - Boston College

Doak Walker Award (best running back)

Mike Hart - Michigan
x- Darren McFadden - Arkansas
Ray Rice - Rutgers

2007 Bronko Nagurski Trophy

James Laurinaitis - LB - Ohio St.
x - Glenn Dorsey DT - LSU
Chris Long - DE - Virginia
George Selvie DE - South Florida
Aqib Talib - CB - Kansas
(The winner was announced on Dec. 3 and presented the Trophy in Charlotte, N.C.)

Chuck Bednarik Trophy(best defensive player)

x - Dan Connor - LB - Penn St
Glenn Dorsey - DT - Louisiana St
James Laurinaitis - LB - Ohio St

Jim Thorpe Award (best defensive back)

x - Antoine Cason - CB - Arizona
Jamie Silva - S - Boston College
Craig Steltz - S - Louisiana St

Biletnikoff Award (best wide receiver)

x - Michael Crabtree - Texas Tech
Mario Manningham - Michigan
Jordy Nelson - Kansas St

John Mackey Award (best tight end)

Gary Barnidge – Sr. - Louisville
Travis Beckum – Jr. - Wisconsin
Chase Coffman – Jr. - Missouri
x - Fred Davis – Sr. - USC
Jermaine Gresham – So.- Oklahoma
Darius Hill – Jr. - Ball St
Dustin Keller – Sr. - Purdue
Martin Rucker – Sr. - Missouri

Chris Long Wins Ted Hendricks Award
Chris Long of the University of Virginia is this year’s winner. Long claimed more than 60% of the final-round votes – a new record for the Hendricks Award.
The Atlantic Coast Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year, Chris Long led the ACC and was third in the NCAA – FBS in sacks (14.0). This sack total equaled or surpassed the total recorded by 12 NCAA teams. Long also led his conference with 19.0 tackles-for-loss (tied for 8th in NCAA). One-quarter of Long’s 75 tackles this season were made behind the line of scrimmage.

Long’s accolades this season include:
- First-Team All-America honors from the American Football Coaches Association
- First-Team All-America honors from Rivals.com
- First-Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors
- Finalist for the Lott, Lombardi and Nagurski Awards
- Two-time ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week.

Rimington Trophy - best Center

Steve Justice - Wake Forest
Kory Lichtensteiger - Bowling Green
x - Jonathan Luigs - Arkansas
Alex Mack - California
Adam Spieker - Missouri
Cody Wallace - Texas A&M

Manning Finalists - best QB

Erik Ainge - Tennessee
Sam Bradford - Oklahoma
Colt Brennan - Hawaii
Chase Daniel - Missouri
Dennis Dixon - Oregon
Graham Harrell - Texas Tech
Matt Ryan - Boston College
Tim Tebow - Florida
Patrick White - West Virginia
Andre’ Woodson - Kentucky

Butkus ’07 Award Finalists (best linebacker)

Dan Connor - 6’1� 240 lbs. - Penn St
Jordon Dizon - 6’ 230 lbs. - Colorado
x - James Laurinaitis - 6’3� 245 lbs. - Ohio St.

Ted Hendricks Midseason List

Eric Bakhtiari - Univ. of San Diego - 6'4" 260
Kroy Biermann - Montana - 6'3" 241
Victor Butler - Oregon St - 6'2" 234
Calais Campbell - Miami - 6'8" 280
Bruce Davis - UCLA - 6'3" 230
Will Davis - Illinois - 6'3" 246
Larry English - Northern Illinois - 6'3" 255
Auston English - Oklahoma - 6'3" 253
Maurice Evans - Penn St - 6'2" 257
Vernon Gholston - Ohio St - 6'4" 265
Wallace Gilberry - Alabama - 6'4" 265
Brandon Graham - Michigan - 6'2" 270
Rudolph Hardie - Howard University - 6'1" 270
Greg Hardy - Mississippi - 6'5" 255
Derrick Harvey - Florida - 6'5" 235
Anthony Hoke - Cincinnati - 6'1" 255
Phillip Hunt - Houston - 6'2" 250
Jeremy Jarmon - Kentucky - 6'3" 268
Brian Johnston - Gardner-Webb - 6'5" 280
x - Chris Long - Virginia - 6'4" 278
Bryan Mattison - Iowa - 6'3" 272
Greg Middleton - Indiana - 6'3" 270
Chase Ortiz - TCU - 6'3" 255
Nathan Peterson - Oklahoma St - 6'2" 240
Nick Reed - Oregon - 6'2" 255
Jonal Saint-Dic - Michigan St - 6'1" 255
Trevor Scott - Buffalo - 6'5" 252
George Selvie - South Florida - 6'4" 242
Matt Shaughnessy - Wisconsin - 6'6" 250
Hilee Taylor - North Carolina - 6'3" 245

Draddy Trophy Finalists - Academic Heisman

Football Bowl Subdivision:
Alex Brink - QB - Washington St
John Carlson - TE - Notre Dame
Dennis Dixon - QB - Oregon
x - Dallas Griffin - OL - Texas
Mike Klinkenborg - LB - Iowa
J Leman - LB - Illinois
Brandon Renkart - LB - Rutgers
Paul Smith - QB - Tulsa
Jacob Tamme - TE - Kentucky

Football Championship Subdivision:
Nick Clark - DE - Texas St
Brandon Cramer - S - Dayton

Division II:
Michael Eubanks - LB - Delta St University (Ms.)
Danny Woodhead - RB - Chadron St (Neb)

Division III:
Eric Safran - OC - Mount Union College (Oh)
Jake Weller - DB - Illinois College).

Lou Groza Award - Collegiate (best Place-Kicker)

Jose Martinez - University of Texas at El Paso
Austin Starr - Indiana
x - Thomas Weber - Arizona St

Ray Guy Award (best punter)

x - Durant Brooks - Georgia Tech
Kevin Huber - Cincinnati
Brett Kern - Toledo

*2006 award winner

Frank Coyle is a longtime member of the FWAA and votes in all the major college awards - the Heisman Trophy, Lombardi, Outland, Jim Thorpe including all the defensive awards. He is also a voter for the FWAA on the College team polls, the Grantland Rice Polls. He is a nationwide radio and TV personality and makes frequent appearances on sports talk shows from coast to coast. He has been a regular guest on major radio shows such as the Score in Chicago, Sporting News Radio, ESPN Radio nationwide, WEEI Boston, WFAN in New York and Sports Extra in San Diego as well as every major sports talk show nationwide. His Heisman Trophy and Jim Thorpe Award ballots are released annually in early Dec. He is the main consultant for the Senior Bowl, in addition to other postseason All-star classics like the East Coast Bowl.