Add another award to the resumé.
Star quarterback Justin Fields was presented as the 2020 winner of the Chicago Tribune's Silver Football, an award in existence since 1924 that goes to the best player in the Big Ten.
He received 12 of the 13 possible first-place votes. His receivers garnered attention, too. Garrett Wilson had one first-place vote and Chris Olave picked up two second-place votes.
Fields, a third-year Ohio State quarterback preparing for presumably his final game in college in the national championship, is the third Buckeye in a row to win, following Dwayne Haskins in 2018 and Chase Young in 2019. He's the 22nd Ohio State player to win the award, and the seventh in the last nine years.
Fields has also been named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and Quarterback of the Year this season. With one game to play, he's completed 73.4% of his passes for 1,906 yards, 21 touchdowns, and just six interceptions.
Past Silver Football winners from Ohio State:
- 2020 – QB Justin Fields
- 2019 – DE Chase Young
- 2018 – QB Dwayne Haskins
- 2016 – QB J.T. Barrett
- 2015 – RB Ezekiel Elliott
- 2013 – QB Braxton Miller
- 2012 – QB Braxton Miller
- 2006 – QB Troy Smith
- 1998 – QB Joe Germaine
- 1996 – OT Orlando Pace
- 1995 – RB Eddie George
- 1984 – RB Keith Byars
- 1981 – QB Art Schlichter
- 1975 – QB Cornelius Greene
- 1974 – RB Archie Griffin
- 1975 – RB Archie Griffin
- 1955 – HB Howard Cassady
- 1950 – HB Vic Janowicz
- 1945 – FB Ollie Cline
- 1944 – HB Les Horvath
- 1941 – FB Jack Graf
- 1930 – E Wes Fesler
