The Maxwell Football Club selected 10 Big 12 defensive players to its watch list for the 26^th annual Chuck Bednarik Award.
 
The Bednarik Award has been presented to the College Defensive Player of the Year since 1995. Chuck Bednarik, a former standout at Penn and with the Philadelphia Eagles, is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame's Class of '69 and the NFL Hall of Fame's Class of '67.
 
The watch list is divided among position groups, including 26 defensive linemen, 32 linebackers and 32 defensive backs.
 
Big 12 representatives are Terrel Bernard, LB (Baylor), Greg Eisworth, S (Iowa State), Wyatt Hubert, DE (Kansas State), Ronnie Perkins, DE (Oklahoma), Kolby Harvell-Peel, S (Oklahoma State), Trevon Moehrig, S (TCU), Garret Wallow, LB (TCU), Joseph Ossai, LB (Texas), Caden Sterns, S (Texas) and Darius Stills, DT (West Virginia).
 
Semifinalists for the Bednarik Award will be announced Nov. 3, 2020, while the three finalists for the Bednarik Award will be unveiled Nov. 23, 2020. The winner of the 2020 Bednarik Award will be announced as part of the ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on Dec. 10, 2020. The formal presentations of these awards will be made at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Gala hosted by Tropicana Hotel & Casino Atlantic City on March 12, 2021.
 
The Big 12 has produced three previous winners, including Oklahoma LB Teddy Lehman in 2003.