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