Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier and Eric Crouch | Nebraska AthleticsMAJOR POSTSEASON AWARDS
HEISMAN TROPHY
Player
• Johnny Rodgers 1972
• Mike Rozier 1983
• Eric Crouch 2001
WALTER CAMP
PLAYER OF YEAR
Player
PLAYER OF YEAR
• Johnny Rodgers 1972
• Mike Rozier 1983
• Eric Crouch 2001
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PLAYER OF YEAR
Player
PLAYER OF YEAR
• Ndamukong Suh 2009
MAXWELL AWARD
Player
• Mike Rozier 1983
RIMINGTON TROPHY
Center
• Dominic Raiola 2000
OUTLAND TROPHY
Interior lineman
• Larry Jacobson 1971
• Rich Glover 1972
• Dave Rimington 1981
• Dave Rimington 1982
• Dean Steinkuhler 1983
• Will Shields 1992
• Zach Wiegert 1994
• Aaron Taylor 1997
• Ndamukong Suh 2009
LOMBARDI AWARD
Lineman
• Rich Glover 1972
• Dave Rimington 1982
• Dean Steinkuhler 1983
• Grant Wistrom 1997
• Ndamukong Suh 2009
DAVEY O’BBRIEN
NATL. QB AWARD
Quarterback
NATL. QB AWARD
• Eric Crouch 2001
BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY
Defensive player
• Ndamukong Suh 2009
JOHNNY UNITAS
GOLDEN ARM AWARD
Senior quarterback
GOLDEN ARM AWARD
• Tommie Frazier 1995
BUTKUS AWARD
Linebacker
• Trev Alberts 1993
CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD
Defensive player
• Ndamukong Suh 2009
NU’s Heisman runners-up
2001 Heisman news coverage
Honors scorecard
| RETIRED JERSEYS The university honors all major national award winners by retiring their jerseys, but the player’s number remains available to active Huskers. The only numbers to be retired are 20, 60 and 64. After the 1949 season, the N Club voted to retire No. 60 in honor of Tom “Train Wreck” Novak, a four-time All-Big Seven choice and a 1949 All-American. Bob Brown’s No. 64 was permanently retired in 2004 after Brown, already in the College Football Hall of Fame, became just the third Husker in history to earn a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Johnny Rodgers’ No. 20 is back in retirement after having been worn by his son, Terry, in the 1980s and by numerous other players through 2008. |
| Year | No. | Player | Major award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 60 | Tom Novak | Huskers’ only four-time all-conference |
| 1972 | 20 | Johnny Rodgers | 1972 Heisman/Walter Camp |
| 1972 | 79 | Rich Glover | 1972 Outland/Lombardi |
| 1982 | 50 | Dave Rimington | 1981 & 1982 Outland, 1982 Lombardi |
| 1983 | 30 | Mike Rozier | 1983 Heisman/Maxwell/Walter Camp |
| 1983 | 71 | Dean Steinkuhler | 1983 Outland/Lombardi |
| 1994 | 75 | Larry Jacobson | 1971 Outland |
| 1994 | 75 | Will Shields | 1992 Outland |
| 1994 | 34 | Trev Alberts | 1993 Butkus |
| 1995 | 72 | Zach Wiegert | 1994 Outland |
| 1996 | 15 | Tommie Frazier | 1995 Johnny Unitas |
| 1998 | 67 | Aaron Taylor | 1997 Outland |
| 1998 | 98 | Grant Wistrom | 1997 Lombardi |
| 2002 | 54 | Dominic Raiola | 2000 Rimington |
| 2002 | 7 | Eric Crouch | 2001 Heisman/Walter Camp/O’Brien |
| 2004 | 64 | Bob Brown | College (1993) and Pro (2004) HOF |
| 2010 | 93 | Ndamukong Suh | 2009 Outland/Lombardi/Bednarik/Nagurski |
| 2017 | — | Guy Chamberlin | 1962 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 1 | Clarence Swanson | 1973 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 35 | Ed Weir | 1951 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 25 | George Sauer | 1954 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 38 | Sam Francis | 1977 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 33 | Forrest Behm | 1988 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 12 | Bobby Reynolds | 1984 College Football HOF |
| 2017 | 66 | Wayne Meylan | 1991 College Football HOF |
| • Bold = Number permanently retired | |||
| • All players except Novak, Raiola and Suh are in the CFB Hall of Fame | |||