The Main Event: Trophy dash
When the Jim Thorpe Award was established in 1986 to honor the nation's top collegiate defensive back, it joined the Butkus Award (linebackers), the O'Brien Award (quarterbacks), the Outland Trophy (lineman) and the Lombardi Award (linemen/linebackers) as the sport's position awards. Over these 24 years, a comparison of those winners with the Thorpe and Heisman Trophy winners in terms of NFL success:
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