CHICAGO – (October 30, 2017) – Semifinalists for the 33rd annual Butkus Award® honoring the nation’s best linebackers at the collegiate and high school levels were revealed today by the Butkus Foundation.
Fifteen collegiate linebackers from 13 universities were named semi-finalists, with Georgia and Alabama each having two semi-finalists. The list includes 2016 finalist Josey Jewell, and 2016 semi-finalists Jerome Baker, Malik Jefferson and Micah Kiser. Jefferson won the high school award in 2014.
Butkus Award 2017 Collegiate Semi-Finalists
·Josh Allen, Kentucky
·Jerome Baker, Ohio State
·Devin Bush, Michigan
·Lorenzo Carter, Georgia
·Tremaine Edmunds, Virginia Tech
·T.J. Edwards, Wisconsin
·Rashaan Evans, Alabama
·Shaun Dion Hamilton, Alabama
·Malik Jefferson, Texas
·Josey Jewell, Iowa
·Micah Kiser, Virginia
·Dorian O'Daniel, Clemson
·Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, Oklahoma
·Roquan Smith , Georgia
·Cameron Smith, USC
Fifteen collegiate linebackers from 13 universities were named semi-finalists, with Georgia and Alabama each having two semi-finalists. The list includes 2016 finalist Josey Jewell, and 2016 semi-finalists Jerome Baker, Malik Jefferson and Micah Kiser. Jefferson won the high school award in 2014.
Butkus Award 2017 Collegiate Semi-Finalists
·Josh Allen, Kentucky
·Jerome Baker, Ohio State
·Devin Bush, Michigan
·Lorenzo Carter, Georgia
·Tremaine Edmunds, Virginia Tech
·T.J. Edwards, Wisconsin
·Rashaan Evans, Alabama
·Shaun Dion Hamilton, Alabama
·Malik Jefferson, Texas
·Josey Jewell, Iowa
·Micah Kiser, Virginia
·Dorian O'Daniel, Clemson
·Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, Oklahoma
·Roquan Smith , Georgia
·Cameron Smith, USC
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