Two Notre Dame football players — Julian Okwara and Khalid Kareem — have been named to the Bednarik Award Watch List.
The Chuck Bednarik Award is presented annually to the defensive player in college football as judged by the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States. The award is named for Chuck Bednarik, a former college and professional American football player. Voters for the Maxwell College Awards are NCAA head college football coaches, members of the Maxwell Football Club, and sportswriters and sportscasters from across the country.
That fact that Okwara and Kareem made the Bednarik Watch list comes as no surprise to anyone who follows Notre Dame football closely.