EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State junior linebacker Joe Bachie is featured on the 2018 Bednarik Award Watch List, the Maxwell Football Club announced on Monday.
Bachie, who started all 13 games at middle linebacker as a sophomore for the Spartans in 2017 and led the team in tackles (100; 7.7 avg.), was named the recipient of the 2017 Governor’s Award, which is given annually to the program’s most valuable player as voted on by the team. He was the first Spartan sophomore to win the Governor’s Award since quarterback Drew Stanton in 2004.