More than 500 people – including NFL and college football players – attended the 39th Annual Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Banquet.

Emmanwori was a finalist for the Blanchard-Rogers Trophy, an award for the best player from South Carolina. The defensive back earned semifinalist status for the Jim Thorpe Award and a ...

In 2009, he won the Jim Thorpe Award as the top defensive back in college football, and he was a finalist for the Nagurski Trophy. In 2008, he was Thorpe Award finalist and won the SEC Defensive ...

The 6-foot-4, 320 took home both the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Awards ... who heads to the Indianapolis Colts at No. 14. The Jim Thorpe Award winner led the SEC with five interceptions ...

Banks is coming off a dominant junior campaign at UT where he took home both the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi ... honors in the form of the Jim Thorpe Award and The Athletic has his name ...

Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images / Jerome Miron-Imagn Images "He is the first player in Texas history to win the Outland Trophy and ... won the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation's best ...

"He is the first player in Texas history to win the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Award ... with the opponents' best receiver, won the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation's best defensive back ...

Ray Guy Award (best punter); Andre Smith, Alabama, Outland Trophy (best interior lineman); Malcolm Jenkins, Ohio State, Jim Thorpe Award (best defensive back); Shonn Greene, Iowa, Doak Walker Award ...