Linebacker, Texas A&M, 1995–98
Dat Nguyen
- Born
- Sep 25, 1975, in Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center, Arkansas
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Dat Nguyen played linebacker at Texas A&M (1995–98). He won the 1998 Chuck Bednarik Award and the 1998 Lombardi Award. He was a consensus All‑American in 1998. The Dallas Cowboys took Nguyen in round 3, No. 85 overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
At a glance
Honors
- Inducted 2017College Football Hall of Fame
- 1995Second-team All-Southwest Conference
- 1996Second-team All-Big 12
- 1997, 1998First-team All-Big 12
- 1998Chuck Bednarik Award
- 1998Lombardi Award
- 1998Jack Lambert Trophy
- 1998Consensus All‑American
- 1998Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year
Team titles: Big 12 champions, 1998
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
The teams in those years
Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.
In the NFL
Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2003
All-Pro teams: AP second team 2003.
Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Books
Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.
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