LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Former Bears teammates Steve McMichael and Ken Margerum are among 16 players who will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

McMichael, who played defensive tackle for the Bears in a team-record 191 games from 1981-93, was a first-team all-American selection who finished his career at Texas as the school’s all-time leader with 369 tackles and 30 sacks. He was a finalist for the Lombardi and Outland Awards in 1979.

Defensive tackle Steve McMichael ranks second on the Bears' all-time list with 92.5 career sacks.

McMichael became a professional wrestler following a 15-year NFL career, and he’s now head coach and part owner of the Chicago Slaughter of the Continental Indoor Football League.

“I’ve always been a pretty gregarious, outgoing, colorful kind of guy,” McMichael told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper after being informed that he had been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. “This kind of stuff leaves you dumbstruck.”

Margerum, who played wide receiver for the Bears from 1981-83 and 1985-86, was a two-time consensus all-American who left Stanford as the school’s all-time leading receiver with 141 catches for 2,430 yards and 30 touchdowns. 

McMichael and Margerum both won Super Bowl rings as members of the 1985 Bears.

The College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009 also includes RB Pervis Atkins, WR Tim Brown, DB Chuck Cecil, FB Ed Dyas, QB Major Harris, TE Gordon Hudson, C William Lewis, LB Woodrow Lowe, LB Chris Spielman, LB Larry Station, DE Pat Swilling, QB Gino Torretta, RB Curt Warner, DE Grant Wistrom and coaches Dick MacPherson and John Robinson.

The 2009 Class will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at The National Football Foundation's Annual Awards Dinner Dec. 8 in New York and will be officially enshrined at the Hall in South Bend, Ind., in the summer of 2010.

This marks the third straight year that former Bears players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame with Notre Dame’s Chris Zorich honored in 2007 and Florida’s Wilber Marshall in 2008.