Obi Ezeh , Jones and Lee were among the sixteen selected to the midseason Butkus watchlist and Clark was named as one of ten finalists for the Unitas award . Eight Big Ten athletes were named as semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy : Illinois ' Jon Asamoah , Indiana 's Jammie Kirlew , Michigan 's Zoltan Mesko , Minnesota 's Eric Decker , Northwestern 's Andrew Brewer , Ohio State 's Jim Cordle , Penn State 's Josh Hull and Wisconsin 's Mickey Turner on October 1 . Four Big Ten Players midseason watch list for the John Mackey Award : Moeaki , Gantt , Quarless and Graham . Three were quarterfinalists for the Lott Award : Angerer , Jones and Coleman . The Big Ten had two O'Brien Award semifinalists : Stanzi and Clark . Eric Decker was named one of 10 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award . Jones has been selected as a semifinalists for the Bednarik Award along with Angerer , Bowman and Wisconsin defensive end O'Brien Schofield . Hawkeyes ' Tyler Sash was chosen as a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award . Swenson and Northwestern 's Stefan Demos were named semifinalists for the Groza Award . Mesko , Blair White , and Andrew Brewer were among the 12 finalists for the Wuerffel Trophy . Mesko , and Donahue were among 10 semifinalists for the Guy Award . Mesko was named one of three finalists for the Ray Guy Award . Michigan 's Graham was a finalist for the Henricks Award
Campbell Trophy
William V. Campbell Trophy
2009 Big Ten Conference football season