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NCAA.com | July 14, 2015

2015 Rotary Lombardi Award watch list announced

The 2015 Rotary Lombardi watch list was unveiled on Tuesday.

The nominations are given to the best down linemen on offense or defense who line up 10 yards right or left of the ball, and linebackers no more than five yards off the line of scrimmage. Last year's winner was Arizona linebacker Scooby Wright III. He could become just the second student-athlete to receive the award twice. Former Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace won the award in 1995 and 1996.

Here are the players to watch:

2015 ROTARY LOMBARDI WATCH LIST
Ramadan Ahmeti, OL, Central Michigan Dominique Alexander, LB, Oklahoma
Vadal Alexander, OG, LSU Jack Allen, C, Michigan State
T.T. Barber, LB, Middle Tennessee Alex Barrett, DL, San Diego State
Willie Beavers, OL, Western Michigan Adrian Bellard, OT, Texas State
Caleb Benenoch, OL, UCLA Dalton Bennett, OG, Troy
Vince Biegel, LB, Wisconsin Zeek Bigger, LB, East Carolina
Andrew Billings, DT, Baylor Adam Bisnpwaty, OL, Pittsburgh
Ronald Blair, DE, Appalachian State Joey Bosa, DE, Ohio State
J.T. Boyd, OG, East Carolina Jatavis Brown, LB, Akron
DeForest Buckner, DE, Oregon James Burgess, LB, Louisville
Vernon Butler, DT, Louisiana Tech Shilique Calhoun, DE, Michigan State
Brandon Chubb, LB, Wake Forest Kenny Clark, DT, UCLA
Le'Raven Clark, OT, Texas Tech Ben Clarke, OL, Hawaii
Trevon Coley, DT, Florida Atlantic Jack Conklin, OT, Michigan State
Kamalei Correa, DE, Boise State Sheldon Day, DT, Notre Dame
Taylor Decker, OT, Ohio State Hunter Dimick, DE, Utah
Spencer Drango, OT, Baylor Parker Ehinger, OG, Cincinnati
Ken Ekanem, DE, Virginia Tech Pat Elflein, OG, Ohio State
Steve Elmer, OG, Notre Dame Kyler Fackrell, LB, Utah State
Dan Feeney, OG, Indiana Sedrick Flowers, OG, Texas
Leonard Floyd, LB, Georgia Isaiah Folasa-Lutui, OG, New Mexico State
Kyle Fuller, C, Baylor Joshua Garnett, OG, Stanford
Myles Garrett, DE, Texas A&M Adam Gotsis, DT, Georgia Tech
Darrell Greene, OL, San Diego State Ike Harris, OT, East Carolina
Tylor Harris, DT, Wake Forest Marcus Henry, OG, Boise State
Nick Holt, LB, Western Kentucky Alex Huettel, C, Bowling Green
Matt Hugenberg, OL, Army D.J. Hunter, LB, Marshall
Great Ibe, LB, Eastern Michigan Myles Jack, LB, UCLA
Jordan Jenkins, LB, Georgia Darius Johnson, OG, Middle Tennessee
Gerrand Johnson, DT, Louisiana-Monroe Tyler Johnstone, OT, Oregon
Jarron Jones, DT, Notre Dame Bronson Kaufusi, DE, BYU
Kingsley Keke, DT, Texas A&M Ryan Kelly, C, Alabama
Kaydon Kirby, C, North Texas Hunter Kissenger, LB, Louisiana-Monroe
Tejan Koroma, OL, BYU James Kristof, OL, Western Michigan
Nick Kwiatkoski, LB, West Virginia Royce LaFrance, DE, Tulane
Forrest Lamp, OL, KR Western Kentucky Taylor Lasecki, C, SMU
Darron Lee, LB, SO Ohio State Steve Longa, LB, Rutgers
Alex Lyons, LB, Rice Nick Martin, C, Notre Dame
Blake Martinez, LB, Stanford Praise Martin-Oguike, DL, Temple
Tyler Matakevich, LB, Temple Boomer Mays, LB, Northern Illinois
Cassanova McKinzy, LB, Auburn Marc Millan, LB, Idaho
Mason Monheim, LB, Illinois Alfredo Morales, OL, Texas Tech
Silverberry Mouhon, DE, Cincinnati Antonio Morrison, LB, Florida
Andrew Ness, C, Northern Illinois Dadi Nicolas, DE, Virginia Tech
Thomas Niles, DE, UCF Robert Nkemdiche, DT, Mississippi
Reggie Northrup, LB, Florida State Shawn Oakman, DE, Baylor
Pat O'Connor, DE, Eastern Michigan Rees Odhiambo, OT, Boise State
Emmanuel Ogbah, DE, Oklahoma State Joe Ostman, DE, Central Michigan
Montese Overton, LB, East Carolina Denzell Perine, DE, Florida International
Caleb Peterson, OG, North Carolina Joseph Peterson, LB, Georgia State
Davion Pierson, DT, TCU Manoa Pikula, LB, BYU
Greg Pyke, OG, Georgia Mykheal Quave, OT, Louisiana-Lafayette
Reggie Ragland, LB, Alabama Sheldon Rankins, DE, Louisville
Andrew Reue, OL, Rice Tyler Roberts, DE, Troy
A'Shawn Robinson, DT, Alabama Jovan Santos-Knox, LB, Massachusetts
Joseph Scelfo, C, South Alabama Joe Schmidt, LB, Notre Dame
Isaac Seumalo, C, Oregon State Ian Seau, DE, Nevada
Blake Serpa, DL, Central Michigan Ryan Simmons, LB, Oklahoma State
Matt Skura, C, Duke Pearce Slater, OL, San Diego State
Jaylon Smith, LB, Notre Dame Terrence Smith, LB, Florida State
Garrett Stafford, OT, Tulsa Ronnie Stanley, OT, Notre Dame
Graham Stewart, LB, Connecticut Chris Stone, DE, Arkansas State
Eric Striker, LB, Oklahoma Christian Tago, LB, San Jose State
Chris Taylor, OG, Tulane Jeremy Timpf, LB, Army
Dominique Tovell, LB, Louisiana-Lafayette Max Tuerk, C, Southern California
Laremy Tunsil, OT, Mississippi Landon Turner, OG, North Carolina
Tanner Vallejo, LB, Boise State Eddie Vanderdoes, DL, UCLA
Clint Van Horn, OT, Marshall Nick Vigil, LB, Utah State
Trent Voss, DE, Toledo Michael Wakefield, DE, Florida International
Adolphus Washington, DT, Ohio State Toby Weathersby, OT, LSU
Scooby Wright III, LB, Arizona Eddie Yarbrough, DE, Wyoming
Avery Young, OT, Auburn Anthony Zettel, DT, Penn State

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