ESPN.com · Apr 4, 2016
Take Two: Who's the Big Ten's best defensive player?
Last week, we debated the Big Ten's best offensive player. So it's only fair that we return to that topic and look at the other side of the field:
Who's the B1G's most valuable player on defense?
No returning Big Ten player racked up more postseason honors than Desmond King.Josh Moyer: Iowa CB Desmond King
Let's not overthink this. King is the only returning Big Ten player who won a national award (Jim Thorpe), he's a consensus All-American, and he finished second in the nation in interceptions with eight. That last point especially bears repeating because he tied Iowa's single-season interceptions record, first set 77 years ago by the man Kinnick Stadium is named after.