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MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia's Dante Stills appears on the watch list for the 28th Chuck Bednarik Award announced Monday by the Maxwell Football Club and presented annually to the outstanding defensive player in college football.
Stills, one of 90 players nationally listed on the watch list, is a senior defensive lineman from Fairmont.
The Bednarik Award has been presented to the College Defensive Player of the Year since 1994 and is named in honor of Chuck "Concrete Charlie" Bednarik who was an All American player at the University of Pennsylvania and later a multiple year All Pro linebacker and center for the Philadelphia Eagles. He is a member of both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame and was the last NFL player to be a full time player on both offense and defense.
The Bednarik Award watch list will once again incorporate a broad spectrum of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs and conferences from coast to coast, led by Alabama's Will Anderson Jr., who is the lone returning finalist from 2021, as the majority of this year's candidate group features fresh faces. The full list consists of 90 players with Alabama, Clemson and Georgia having three candidates each and an additional nine schools having two players represented.
Last year's Chuck Bednarik Award winner was Georgia's Jordan Davis, who went on to be the first-round selection of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2022 NFL Draft.
Davis joins Georgia great David Pollack (2004) as the Bulldogs' second Bednarik Award recipient.