The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Central Pennsylvania Chapter, has selected former Penn State football player Brandon Noble as guest speaker for its 20th annual scholar-athlete awards dinner. The dinner will be held on Sunday, March 12 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

Noble broke onto the scene at Penn State as a sophomore totaling 22 tackles and two sacks while helping Penn State to an undefeated season and a Rose Bowl victory over Oregon in 1994. Noble became a defensive stalwart for the Lions during the 1995 and 1996 seasons, collecting a combined 125 tackles and 12 sacks. He was named the defensive Most Valuable Player of the 1997 Fiesta Bowl.

The San Francisco 49ers signed Noble as an undrafted free agent in 1997 with multiple stints on their practice squad. Noble signed as a free agent with Dallas Cowboys in 1999 and was assigned to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe. He would eventually make his way onto the Cowboys roster that fall as a back-up defensive tackle. In 2001 Noble worked his way into the starting line-up in Dallas where he contributed 56 tackles and 3.5 sacks and was selected by his teammates as winner of the NFL's Unsung Hero Award. He finished Cowboys career in 2002, making 32 consecutive starts. Noble signed with the Washington Redskins in 2003 and retired in 2006.

Since retiring from the NFL Noble has held assistant coaching positions with West Chester University, the UFL's Omaha Firehawks, Coastal Carolina University and most notably as a member of Matt Rhule's coaching staff at Temple University in 2012.

Currently, Noble hosts the D2 Podcast. He is a regular guest on CSN Philadelphia's Breakfast on Broad.