The Walker Award is named after former SMU and Detroit Lions running back Doak Walker, who was the 1948 Heisman Trophy winner, and member of both the college football and Pro Football Hall of Fames.

Hall is a back-to-back Doak Walker Award finalist. He fell just short of winning the honor in 2020 to Alabama's Najee Harris. Clemson's Travis Etienne rounded out last year's finalists.

Hall is a back-to-back Doak Walker Award finalist. He fell just short of winning the honor in 2020 to Alabama's Najee Harris. Clemson's Travis Etienne rounded out last year's finalists.

The Doak Walker Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association. Founded in 1997, the NCFAA includes college football’s most prestigious awards and its 24 awards have ...

The Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet will be held in Dallas in early 2017. The award, which will name its 27th recipient in 2016, is named for SMU’s three-time All-America running back ...

Preseason award watchlists continue to be revealed and on Tuesday, this year’s Doak Walker Award watchlist was announced. Last week, the Maxwell Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Outland Trophy ...

The recipient of the 2022 Doak Walker Award will be announced live on The Home Depot College Football Awards. The award is named for SMU’s three-time All-America running back Doak Walker.

The Big Ten has a handful of really good running backs, and it shows with the naming of the finalists for the Doak Walker Award. Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon, Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah and Indiana’s ...

The Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet is scheduled for February 16, 2018 in Dallas. The award, which will name its 28th recipient in 2017, is named for SMU’s three-time All-America running ...

On Tuesday, the watch list for the Doak Walker Award was released, and Ollie Gordon made his expected appearance. While Gordon will enter the season as a favorite to win the award, matching his ...

Chuba Hubbard and Travis Etienne are the leading Doak Walker Award candidates. Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor picked up his second consecutive Doak Walker Award, which honors the best running back ...

The Doak Walker Award, which goes to the nation's top running back, released its watch list Thursday. There are 69 players on the list, including 2014 semifinalists Matt Breida (Georgia Southern ...