{"id":197492,"date":"2025-10-02T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197492\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:05:05","slug":"daley-added-to-chuck-bednarik-award-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197492\/","title":{"rendered":"Daley Added to Chuck Bednarik Award Watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah redshirt sophomore defensive end <a href=\"https:\/\/utahutes.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/john-henry-daley\/16569\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16569\" target=\"_blank\">John Henry Daley<\/a> has been added to the Chuck Bednarik Award Watchlist, the Maxwell Football Club announced on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDaley currently leads FBS football in sacks (6.5) and is tied for the national lead in tackles for loss with 8.5. The Alpine, Utah native is the only Big 12 player this season with at least an assisted sack in every game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDaley&#8217;s 25 total tackles lead the Utah defensive line and are tied for second on the team. He also shares the conference lead with two forced fumbles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bednarik Award has been given to the Defensive Player of the Year since 1995 and will be presented for the 31st time in 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSemifinalists for the Bednarik Award will be announced on Nov. 11, while the three finalists will be unveiled on Nov. 25. The winner of the award will be announced as part of the ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on Dec. 11.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE UTES<br \/>\nFollow the Utes on social media through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Utah_Football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utahfootball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UtahUtesFootball\/?fref=ts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@utah_football?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0along with visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahutes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.UtahUtes.com<\/a>. Download the Utah 360 app\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utah360.qrplanet.com\/o3ni9z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Utah redshirt sophomore defensive end John Henry Daley has been added to the Chuck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-197492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}