2008 - Jacary Atkinson - Tuskegee University

2007 - Curtis Johnson Clark Atlanta University

2006 - Justin Durant - Hampton University

2005 - Bruce Eugene - Grambling State University

2004 - Derrick Winbush - Fort Valley State University

2003 - Quincy Richard - Southern University

2002 - Bruce Eugene - Grambling State University

2001 - John Grant - Morehouse College

2000 - Andrew Braxton - Virginia Union

1999 - JaJuan Seider - Florida A&M

1988 - Micheal Basnight - North Carolina A&T

1997 - Telly Priester - Virginia State University

1996 - Antonio Leroy - Alabama State

1995 - Earl Holmes - Florida A&M University

1994 - No Recipient

1993 - Jay "Sky" Walker - Howard University

1992 - Douglas Grant - Savannah State College

1991 - Carl Donnie Wright - Virginia Union University

1990 - Walter Dean - Grambling State University

1989 - Clemente Gordon - Grambling State University

1988 - Louis Tillman - Jackson State

1987 - Terry Morrow - Central State University

1986 - Brad Baxter - Alabama State

1985 - Mark Corbin - Central State University

1984 - Jerry Rice - Miss. Valley State University

1983 - Jerry Rice - Miss. Valley State University

1982 - Richard Dent - Tennessee State University

1981 - James "Sugar Bear" Hamilton - Miss. Valley State University

1980 - Robert Parham - Grambling University

1979 - Joe 747" Adams, Jr. - Tennessee State

1978 - Jeffery Moore - Jackson State