CHICAGO -- South Dakota State University linebacker Christian Rozeboom is one of 25 players under consideration for the STATS FCS Buck Buchanan Award. The initial watch list for the top defensive player in the Football Championship Subdivision was announced Thursday.
A senior from Sioux Center, Iowa, Rozeboom has been named to the all-Missouri Valley Football Conference First Team each of his first three seasons. He has led the team in tackles each year, registering at least 100 tackles all three seasons. In 2018, Rozeboom tallied 105 tackles and 10.5 tackles for loss in 2018, notching 10 or more tackles in five contests. He also forced three fumbles and intercepted a pair of passes.
Rozeboom enters the 2019 season ranked fourth in career tackles at South Dakota State with 364, putting him 73 away from bettering the career mark of 436 held by Greg Osmundson (1986-89).
A three-time team captain, Rozeboom previously was a finalist for the STATS FCS Buck Buchanan Award in 2017, when he finished 20th in the voting. The watch list will be updated periodically throughout the 2019 season.