Boise State senior linebacker Tanner Vallejo was named to the Butkus Award watch list today—a nice compliment to the Nagurski watch list recognition he received on Friday. The Nagurski Award is the broader of the two, awarded annually to the "collegiate American football player adjudged to be the best defensively in the NCAA" (really, 'best defender' would have sufficed) and the Butkus Award, as you've probably guessed, is awarded to the best player at the position of its namesake—linebacker. With Thomas Sperbeck expected to land on the Biletnikoff watch list tomorrow and the Broncos already having players also on the Maxwell, Groza, and Mackey lists, I wondered who else might land on watch lists this summer.
Lesser known watch lists the Broncos should keep an eye on
