Suh Selected for College Football Hall of Fame
Nebraska legend Ndamukong Suh is one of 22 individuals who will make up the 2026 College Football Hall of Fame Class. The 18 players and four coaches were announced on Wednesday by the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame.
The members of the 2026 Class were selected from a national ballot of 79 players and nine coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision and 100 players and 35 coaches from the divisional ranks. The Hall of Fame class includes 10 unanimous first-team All-Americans, eight winners of college football major awards and 11 conference players of the year.
Suh becomes the 21st Nebraska player to earn induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. He is the fourth Husker defensive lineman in the Hall, joining Wayne Meylan, Rich Glover and Grant Wistrom.
Overall, Nebraska has 28 members of the Hall, including seven coaches. Suh is the first Husker player to be inducted since offensive tackle Zach Wiegert in 2022, and is the ninth Husker player inducted in the past 20 classes. Nebraska’s most recent inductee was Head Coach Frank Solich, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2024.
The 2026 NFF College Football Hall of Fame Class will officially be inducted during the 68th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2026, at Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Their accomplishments will be forever immortalized at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
Suh delivered one of the most dominant individual seasons in college football history, redefining the impact an interior defensive lineman could have on the national stage during his career at Nebraska. A native of Portland, Oregon, Suh was a unanimous First Team All-American in 2009, and swept college football’s major defensive awards, winning the Bednarik, Lombardi, Nagurski, and Outland trophies and earning Associated Press College Football Player of the Year honors. He finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting, becoming the first defensive lineman in 15 seasons to finish as a Heisman finalist. He was also a finalist for the Lott Impact Trophy and Walter Camp Player of the Year Award.
Suh anchored Head Coach Bo Pelini’s defense that led the nation in scoring defense in 2009, allowing just 10.43 points per game. As a senior, Suh tallied 21 tackles for loss, ranking sixth in the nation, and 12 sacks, ranking seventh.
Suh earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and Defensive Lineman of the Year honors in 2009 and helped lead Nebraska to two Big 12 North Division championships. His performance in the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game, highlighted by a school-record-tying seven tackles for loss against Texas, cemented his status as one of the most disruptive forces the game has ever seen.
Selected second overall in the 2010 NFL Draft by Detroit, Suh enjoyed 13 seasons in the league, playing with the Lions, Dolphins, Rams, Buccaneers and Eagles. He earned First Team All-Pro honors three times, five Pro Bowl appearances as well as winning a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay in the 2020 season.
Now an entrepreneur, real estate developer, and podcast host, Suh continues to make an impact through his philanthropic efforts and the Ndamukong Suh Family Foundation, including a landmark $2.6 million gift to Nebraska that supports both athletics and academics. Nebraska retired his No. 93 and he has been inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame (2010) and the Nebraska Athletics Hall of Fame (2024).