List of Iowa Hawkeyes football honorees
The Iowa Hawkeyes football team was founded in 1889 to represent the University of Iowa in intercollegiate competition, and it has participated in the sport every season since. Over the course of the team's history, individual Hawkeye players of exceptional ability have received many accolades. Iowa has had several players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame, Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. Individual Hawkeyes have won many prestigious national awards, including the Outland Trophy, the Davey O'Brien Award, the Doak Walker Award, the Jim Thorpe Award, and the Heisman Trophy. 92 Hawkeyes have been named a first-team or second-team All-American, and 28 have been named consensus first-team All-Americans. The Iowa Hawkeyes have had ten players win the Big Ten Most Valuable Player Award, and 219 Hawks have earned All-Big Ten recognition. Iowa has had 244 NFL draft picks, and several former Hawkeye players have gone on to become NFL head coaches or Division I college head coaches. National honorees Annual awards Individual award winners Heisman Trophy Nile Kinnick – 1939 Maxwell Award Nile Kinnick – 1939 Chuck Long – 1985 AP Athlete of the Year Nile Kinnick – 1939 AP Player of the Year Brad Banks – 2002 Davey O'Brien Award Chuck Long – 1985 Brad Banks – 2002 UPI Lineman of the Year Alex Karras – 1957 Mosi Tatupu Award Kahlil Hill – 2001 John Mackey Award Dallas Clark – 2002 T. J. Hockenson – 2018 Ozzie Newsome Award T. J. Hockenson – 2018 Jack Tatum Trophy Desmond King – 2015 Josh Jackson – 2017 Jack Lambert Trophy Josey Jewell – 2017 Lott IMPACT Trophy Josey Jewell – 2017 Lou Groza Award Nate Kaeding – 2002 Doak Walker Award Shonn Greene – 2008 Jim Brown Award Shonn Greene – 2008 Jim Thorpe Award Desmond King – 2015 Outland Trophy Cal Jones – 1955 Alex Karras – 1957 Robert Gallery – 2003 Brandon Scherff – 2014 Rimington Trophy Tyler Linderbaum – 2021 Butkus Award Jack Campbell - 2022 Coaching award winners AFCA Coach of the Year Eddie Anderson – 1939 AP Coach of the Year Award Kirk Ferentz – 2002 Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award Kirk Ferentz – 2002 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award Kirk Ferentz – 2015 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award Kirk Ferentz – 2015 Woody Hayes Trophy Kirk Ferentz – 2015 Amos Alonzo Stagg Award Hayden Fry – 2005 Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year Hayden Fry – 1981 Team Awards Joe Moore Award Iowa – 2016 Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award Iowa – 2017 Laureus World Sports Award for Best Sporting Moment Iowa – 2017 Heisman Trophy nominees The most prestigious of these individual awards is the Heisman Trophy. Nile Kinnick won the award in 1939, and four other Hawkeyes have placed second in the voting. In all, nine Hawkeye players have finished in the top ten in the Heisman Trophy balloting, with Chuck