Brad Budde (2001) - USC Athletics Hall of Fame

Brad Budde

Induction:
2001
Class:
1979

Brad Budde was USC’s first Lombardi Award winner in 1979 when he won consensus All-American honors. A 4-year starting offensive guard (1976-79), he was the first freshman footballer to start a USC season opener since World War II. He was a key member of Troy’s 1978 national championship squad and played in 4 bowl games (the 1977, 1979 and 1980 Rose Bowls and the 1977 Bluebonnet Bowl). A 3-time All-Conference first teamer (1977-78-79), in 1979 he also was the runner-up for the Outland Trophy and won USC’s Offensive Player of the Year Award and Most Inspirational Player Award. Also a fine student, he received an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 1979. He was inducted in the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2016, he was named to the Pac-12 All-Century Team. He was the 11th pick of the 1980 NFL draft by the Kansas City Chiefs and played 7 seasons (1980-86) for the Chiefs, where his father, Ed, was an All-Pro lineman before him. He then became a physical therapist.