Patrick Willis
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During Willis's senior season at Ole Miss, he received the Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Award as the nation's top linebacker. A year later as a member of the 49ers, Willis led the NFL in tackles, earned first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors while being named the 2007 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. Willis made the Pro Bowl in his first seven seasons in the NFL, and earned All-Pro honors in his first six years. He won the college Butkus Award in 2006 while at Ole Miss and in 2009, and won the professional Butkus Award while with the 49ers in 2009. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Han Wang, Feng Zhang, Yanfeng Meng, Tong Zhang, Patrick Willis, Thomas Le, Stephanie Soriano, Erik Ray, Karim Valji, Guixiang Zhang, Xiaoming YangGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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