Current Notre Dame linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah and future Notre Dame linebacker Prince Kollie gave Notre Dame a sweet of the Butkus Award on Monday. Koramoah taking home the award as the best backer in college football, and Kollie doing the same on the prep level marking the second time in the last eight years Notre Dame had the college and high school Butkus Award winners in the same year.
In 2012, Manti Te’o became Notre Dame’s first every Butkus Award winner, while Jaylon Smith was the high school Butkus winner. Smith won the college Butkus Award three years later before leaving for the NFL.