As the preseason award lists continue to come in, we find three more UConn Huskies football players on a list. This time around, linebackers Scott Lutrus, Lawrence Wilson and Greg Lloyd have been named to the 2010 Butkus Award watch list.
Instituted in 1985, The Butkus Award® is one of the elite individual honors in college football. This year, The Butkus Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, takes stewardship of the award and comes home to Chicago to fully realize the original purpose of honoring athletic achievement and service to the community while honoring the nation’s best high school, college, and professional linebackers. An independent Butkus Award Selection Committee, headed by Pro Football Weekly’s Hub Arkush and comprised of 51 experts including professional, college and high school scouts, and prominent sports journalists, will conduct the selection process.
Derrell Smith and Doug Hogue from Syracuse are the only other members of the Big East to place someone on the list.
As we already know Lloyd won’t play this season as he’s not fully recovered from the knee injury that ended his 2009 season.
A redshirt senior and two-time captain, Lutrus has played in 34 games in a Huskies uniform. He’s made 282 tackles with 4.5 sacks and five career interceptions. He missed parts of the 2009 season with a stinger injury but is healthy and ready for 2010.
An All-Big East first team selection and another redshirt senior, Wilson led the team in tackles in 2009 with 140 and also garnered five sacks. He’s played 39 games in a UConn uniform and has 326 career tackles to go with six sacks and four interceptions.
A full look at the 2010 Butkus Award watch list after the jump.
- Akeem Ayers, UCLA
- Nick Bellore, Central Michigan
- Chris Borland, Wisconsin
- Vontaze Burfict, Arizona State
- Josh Bynes, Auburn
- Tank Carder, TCU
- Bruce Carter, North Carolina
- Jonathan Cornell, Mississippi
- Quentin Davie, Northwestern
- Brian Duncan, Texas Tech
- Mason Foster, Washington
- Jerry Franklin, Arkansas
- Chris Galippo, USC
- Mark Herzlich, Boston College
- Dont’a Hightower, Alabama
- Doug Hogue, Syracuse
- Ross Homan, Ohio State
- Justin Houston, Georgia
- Nate Irving, North Carolina State
- Nico Johnson, Alabama
- Greg Jones, Michigan State
- Elijah Joseph, Temple
- Thomas Keiser, Stanford
- Luke Kuechly, Boston College
- Travis Lewis, Oklahoma
- Greg Lloyd, Connecticut
- Scott Lutrus, Connecticut
- Chris Marve, Vanderbilt
- Casey Matthews, Oregon
- Colin McCarthy, Miami (Fla.)
- Von Miller, Texas A&M
- Mike Mohamed, California
- Adrian Moten, Maryland
- Jonas Mouton, Michigan
- Kevin Reddick, North Carolina
- Keenan Robinson, Texas
- Brian Rolle, Ohio State
- Kelvin Sheppard, LSU
- Brian Smith, Notre Dame
- Derrell Smith, Syracuse
- D.J. Smith, Appalachian State
- Sean Spence, Miami (Fla.)
- Craig Stevens, Auburn
- Quan Sturdivant, North Carolina
- Manti Te’o, Notre Dame
- Chris White, Mississippi State
- Korey Williams, Southern Mississippi
- Martez Wilson, Illinois
- Lawrence Wilson, Connecticut
- K.J. Wright, Mississippi State
- Alex Wujciak, Maryland
Photo credit: The Butkus Award website
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