Miller Named to Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
May 01, 2010 | Football
May 1, 2010
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M senior football player Von Miller has been named to the 2010 pre-season Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List.
Miller, a 6-3, 226-pound combination linebacker/defensive end, led the country in sacks last season with 17 quarterback sacks and was named first-team All-America by The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated as well as second-team All-America honors by the Associated Press and the Walter Camp Foundation. Miller was also named a consensus first-team All-Big 12 selection last fall.
The Rotary Lombardi Award is presented annually to a down lineman who lines up no farther than 10 yards to the right of left of the football, and linebackers who are no further than five yards from the ball.
Players earn their way onto the preliminary watch list by earning All-American honors or by being named to their respective all-conference first team unit as selected by the league coaches.
Miller, from DeSoto High School, will play the joker position in Texas A&M new defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter's defensive set. Of Miller's 48 tackles in 2009, 21.5 came behind the line of scrimmage. Miller was a semifinalist for the Butkus Award in 2009 awarded to the nation's top linebacker.
Former Texas A&M linebacker and current assistant football coach Dat Nguyen won the award in 1998.
The Aggies open the 2010 football campaign on Sept. 4 against Stephen F. Austin at Kyle Field.
