A collection of 30 players have been named as candidates for the Ted Hendricks Defensive End-of-the-Year Award, it was announced earlier today.
The award is entering it’s eighth season of existence. Previous recipients of the Hendricks Award include: Terrell Suggs (Arizona State), David Pollack (Georgia), Elvis Dumervil (Louisville), LaMarr Woodley (Michigan), Chris Long (Virginia) and Brian Orakpo (Texas).
Below is the complete list of nominees. One question, though: where the hell is Florida’s Carlos Dunlap and Pittsburgh’s Greg Romeus?
Rahim Alem, LSU
Trevor Anderson, Michigan State
Jeremy Beal, Oklahoma
Alex Carrington, Arkansas State
Antonio Coleman, Auburn
Jermaine Cunningham, Florida
Dexter Davis, Arizona State
Auston English, Oklahoma
Randon Graham, Michigan
Greg Hardy, Ole Miss
Jerry Hughes, TCU
Jan Jorgensen, BYU
Sergio Kindle, Texas
Jammie Kirlew, Indiana
Brandon Lang, Troy
Eric Lorig, Stanford
Greg Middleton, Indiana
Koa Misi, Utah
Dontay Moch, Nevada
Eric Moncur, Miami
Doug Pilcher, Illinois
James Ruffin, Northern Iowa
George Selvie, South Florida
Will Tukuafu, Oregon
Lawrence Wilson, Ohio State
CJ Wilson, East Carolina
Lindsey Witten, Connecticut
Corey Wootton, Northwestern
Willie Young, N.C. State
Frank Zombo, Central Michigan
