Rarely does Northwestern produce a player as outstanding as Austin Carr.
Only one other player in Northwestern football history has won a major individual award, and that was the man who now coaches the team. Pat Fitzgerald swept the Bednarik and Bronco Nagurski awards in 1995 and 1996 and is considered perhaps the best college linebacker in the history of the game.
Yesterday, Carr was named a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which honors the “most outstanding receiver” in the nation — an award won by former and current NFL stars like Randy Moss, Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Michael Crabtree (twice) and Amari Cooper.