Celebrating the 30 Most Valuable Players of the SEC Championship Game

In 1990, it was announced that South Carolina and Arkansas would be joining the Southeastern Conference and that the conference would split into an Eastern and a Western division to create the first ever conference championship game in major college football. Thought of as a joke of an idea at the time, over 30 years later the game has become one of the prime events of the college football season. National title implications abound in this game, legends have been made, and 30 young men have been named the game's most valuable player. Here is a thread honoring those men as many of them have gone on to become giants of the sport:

1992 - Antonio Langham, DB, Alabama


1993 - Terry Dean, QB, Florida


1994 - Ellis Johnson, DT, Florida


1995 - Danny Wuerffel, QB, Florida


1996 - Danny Wuerffel, QB, Florida


1997 - Peyton Manning, QB, Tennessee


1998 - Peerless Price, WR, Tennessee


1999 - Freddie Milons, WR, Alabama


2000 - Rex Grossman, QB, Florida


2001 - Matt Mauck, QB, LSU


2002 - Musa Smith, RB, Georgia


2003 - Justin Vincent, RB, LSU


2004 - Jason Campbell, QB, Auburn


2005 - D.J. Shockley, QB, Georgia


2006 - Percy Harvin, WR, Florida


2007 - Ryan Perriloux, QB, LSU


2008 - Tim Tebow, QB, Florida


2009 - Greg McElroy, QB, Alabama


2010 - Cam Newton, QB, Auburn


2011 - Tyrann Mathieu, DB, LSU


2012 - Eddie Lacy, RB, Alabama


2013 - Tre Mason, RB, Auburn


2014 - Blake Sims, QB, Alabama


2015 - Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama


2016 - Reuben Foster, LB, Alabama


2017 - Roquan Smith, LB, Georgia


2018 - Josh Jacobs, RB, Alabama


2019 - Joe Burrow, QB, LSU


2020 - Najee Harris, RB, Alabama


2021 - Bryce Young, QB, Alabama