Rookie of The Year
The Rookie of the Year award is given to the conference's best freshman. Tom Tumulty from Pittsburgh was the first winner. Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick, Dion Lewis, Larry Fitzgerald, and Teddy Bridgewater also won Offensive Player of the Year honors, with Vick and Lewis winning both awards in the same season.
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