Winners
| Year | Player | School |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Thomas Everett | Baylor |
| 1987 (tie) | Bennie Blades | Miami (Fl) |
| Rickey Dixon | Oklahoma | |
| 1988 | Deion Sanders | Florida State |
| 1989 | Mark Carrier | USC |
| 1990 | Darryll Lewis | Arizona |
| 1991 | Terrell Buckley | Florida State |
| 1992 | Deon Figures | Colorado |
| 1993 | Antonio Langham | Alabama |
| 1994 | Chris Hudson | Colorado |
| 1995 | Greg Myers | Colorado State |
| 1996 | Lawrence Wright | Florida |
| 1997 | Charles Woodson | Michigan |
| 1998 | Antoine Winfield | Ohio State |
| 1999 | Tyrone Carter | Minnesota |
| 2000 | Jamar Fletcher | Wisconsin |
| 2001 | Roy Williams | Oklahoma |
| 2002 | Terence Newman | Kansas State |
| 2003 | Derrick Strait | Oklahoma |
| 2004 | Carlos Rogers | Auburn |
| 2005 | Michael Huff | Texas |
| 2006 | Aaron Ross | Texas |
| 2007 | Antoine Cason | Arizona |
| 2008 | Malcolm Jenkins | Ohio State |
| 2009 | Eric Berry | Tennessee |
| 2010 | Patrick Peterson | LSU |
| 2011 | Morris Claiborne | LSU |
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)