CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – The University of Illinois will host the 2025 Butkus Award Show. The event will be held in Illinois football’s Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Georgia Bulldogs linebacker Jalon Walker was named the 2024 winner on the Butkus Award, a prestigious accolade given annually to the nation's best linebacker. It was well-deserved as Walker ...

The Butkus Foundation has presented high school and professional awards since 2008. A 51-member expert panel of coaches, scouts and journalists guides the award selection process.

The Auburn Tigers have representation on the Butkus Award watch list. Auburn linebacker Owen Pappoe makes the cut for the list of the best linebackers in all of college football. Pappoe decided to ...

The Butkus Award will announce its finalists on Nov. 25 and its 35th winner “on or before” Dec. 10. LSU’s Devin White -- now a Tampa Bay Buccaneer -- won the award in 2018. In fact, SEC ‘backers have ...

The Butkus Award, which will be given out Dec. 9, announced five finalists Monday morning: Eric Kendricks, UCLA Hau’oli Kikaha, Washington Denzel Perryman, Miami (Fla.) Jake Ryan, Michigan Jaylon ...

Butkus Award finalists for the 2022 season came out Tuesday. Arkansas' Drew Sanders, Iowa's Jack Campbell, Georgia's Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Washington State's Daiyan Henley and Cincinnati's Ivan ...

The Butkus Award, awarded to high school, college and professional linebackers, recognizes qualities that defined Butkus’ career: toughness, on-field leadership, competitiveness, football ...

The Collegiate Butkus Award watch list includes candidates from 44 universities. It includes one returning finalist, Raekwon McMillan of Ohio State, who won the 2013 national high school Butkus Award.