IRVING, Texas - Carolina football legend Julius Peppers has been named on the 2023 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation (NFF) and College Hall of Fame announced on Monday.
Peppers played in Chapel Hill from 1999-2001 becoming one of the most disruptive defensive players the sport has ever seen. A unanimous first-team All-American in 2001, he won the Chuck Bednarik Award for the nation's top defensive player and the Rotary Lombardi Award, which at the time was given to the nation's top interior lineman. He finished 10th in the Heisman Trophy balloting, was a finalist for the Nagurski Trophy and was honored as Chevrolet's Defensive Player of the Year.