2005 - Michael Huff, Texas
Jamar Fletcher of the University of Wisconsin.
1999 - Tyrone Carter, Minnesota
1997 - Charles Woodson, Michigan
1996 - Lawrence Wright, Florida
2003 - Derrick Strait, Oklahoma
2001 - Roy Williams, Oklahoma
2004 - Carlos Rogers, Auburn
Antoine Winfield of Ohio State University received the Jim Thorpe Award for being the Top Defensive Back in College Football during 1998.Links are attached for Winfield, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Winfieldand for Thorpe Award History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe_Award
2006 - Aaron Ross, CB Texas
University of Arizona cornerback Antoine Cason.
2002 - Terrence Newman, Kansas St