Year Name, School
2012 - Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
2011 - Tyrann Mathieu, LSU
2010 - Patrick Peterson, LSU
2009 - Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
2008 - Rey 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 - EJ Henderson, Maryland
2001 - Julius Peppers, UNC
2000 - Dan Morgan, Miami
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
1993 - Rob Waldrop, Arizona