John Mackey Award: Winners by Year 2000–2025

College football's best tight end, presented since 2000 by the Nassau County Sports Commission and named for Hall of Fame tight end John Mackey.

All John Mackey Award Winners by Year

Season	Winner	School
2025	Eli Stowers	Vanderbilt
2024	Tyler Warren	Penn State
2023	Brock Bowers	Georgia
2022	Brock Bowers	Georgia
2021	Trey McBride	Colorado State
2020	Kyle Pitts	Florida
2019	Harrison Bryant	Florida Atlantic
2018	T. J. Hockenson	Iowa
2017	Mark Andrews	Oklahoma
2016	Jake Butt	Michigan
2015	Hunter Henry	Arkansas
2014	Nick O'Leary	Florida State
2013	Austin Seferian-Jenkins	Washington
2012	Tyler Eifert	Notre Dame
2011	Dwayne Allen	Clemson
2010	D. J. Williams	Arkansas
2009	Aaron Hernandez	Florida
2008	Chase Coffman	Missouri
2007	Fred Davis	USC
2006	Matt Spaeth	Minnesota
2005	Marcedes Lewis	UCLA
2004	Heath Miller	Virginia
2003	Kellen Winslow II	Miami (FL)
2002	Dallas Clark	Iowa
2001	Daniel Graham	Colorado
2000	Tim Stratton	Purdue

16 of 26 winners have a player page here: college data starts in 2011, and winners who never played in the NFL from 2016 on are not in our data. Source: Wikipedia, John Mackey Award.

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Honors are compiled from public award and league lists; the list text comes from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). A name links to a player page when we have that player in our data and the match is certain; winners from before our data have no link. See an error? Tell us.

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