| Awarded for | ThecollegiateAmerican football player judged to be the best of allNCAAquarterbacks (current) The best NCAA football player playing in the southwestern United States (original) |
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| Location | The Fort Worth Club, Fort Worth Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Davey O'Brien Foundation |
| History | |
| First award | 1977; became a quarterback-only award in 1981 |
| Most recent | Cam Ward,Miami (FL) |
| Website | http://www.daveyobrienaward.org/ |
TheDavey O'Brien Award, officially theDavey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, named afterDavey O'Brien, is presented annually to thecollegiateAmerican football player judged by the Davey O'Brien Foundation to be the best of allNational Collegiate Athletic Associationquarterbacks. The Davey O'Brien Hall of Fame is housed at The Fort Worth Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The annual awards dinner and trophy presentation is held there as well, usually in February.
In 1977, directly after the death of O'Brien, the award was established as theDavey O'Brien Memorial Trophy, and was given to the most outstanding player in the Southwest.Texas running backEarl Campbell won the trophy in 1977,[1]Oklahoma running backBilly Sims won it in 1978, andBaylor linebackerMike Singletary won it twice in 1979 and 1980. In 1981, the award was renamed the Davey O'Brien Award. Since then, only four players have won the award more than once:Ty Detmer ofBYU,Danny Wuerffel of Florida,Jason White of Oklahoma, andDeshaun Watson of Clemson.