The Ted Hendricks Award, given annually to college football's top defensive end, has released its preseason watch list, and six Big 12 defensive ends are on the list. Here they are:

• Jackson Jeffcoat, Texas
• Toben Opurum, Kansas
• R.J. Washington, Oklahoma
• Meshak Williams, Kansas State
• Stansly Maponga, TCU
• Alex Okafor, Texas

Good list there. All deserving. I might add David King at Oklahoma and Will Clarke at West Virginia, but I don't think I could see either of those guys ultimately winning the whole thing.

Brian Orakpo (2008) is the last Big 12 player to win the award, but TCU's Jerry Hughes won the award as a member of the Mountain West in 2009.

No school has had multiple players win the award since its inception in 2002, but ESPN analyst David Pollack won the award twice at Georgia, back in 2003 and 2004.

More awards watch lists:

• Rimington Trophy--best center
• Bednarik Award--best defender
• Maxwell Award--best player
• Mackey Award--best tight end
• Lou Groza Award--best kicker
• Outland Trophy--best interior lineman
• Thorpe Award--best defensive back
• Butkus Award--best linebacker
• Lombardi Award--(it's complicated)
• Biletnikoff Award--best wide receiver
• Davey O'Brien Award--best quarterback
• Doak Walker Award--best running back
• AFCA Good Works Team