ANN ARBOR -- The greatest defensive back ever to come out of the University of Michigan will be honored by the school in a spring-time ceremony.

Charles Woodson, who went on to have a long and illustrious NFL career, will enter Michigan's Hall of Honor alongside six others. A date and location for the ceremony have not yet been determined.

Woodson helped lead the Wolverines to their 1997 national championship, earning first-team All-American Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors while claiming the prestigious Heisman Trophy award for most outstanding player college football player in the country.

To this day, Woodson remains the only defensive player to win the award.

His resume at Michigan was long, claiming Big Ten Rookie of the Year honors in 1995, first-team All-American in 1996, and winning the Walter Camp Award, Bronco Nagurski Trophy, Chuck Bednarik Award and Jim Thorpe Award, in addition to the Heisman, in 1997.

Woodson concluded his three-year stint at Michigan with 18 career interceptions, and was drafted fourth overall by the Oakland Raiders in the 1998 NFL Draft.

He played 18 seasons in the NFL, earning Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1998, Defensive Player of the Year in 2009, and winning the Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers in 2010. Woodson was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection and eight-time all-pro.

Woodson, scheduled to be an honorary captain for Michigan's Nov. 25 game against Ohio State, joins Mary (Fischbach) Jones (swimming and diving), Gil LaRose (men's gymnastics), Norvard "Snip" Nalan (wrestling), Lisa (Larsen) Rainsberger (women's track & field/ gymnastics), Marty Turco (hockey) and MaliVai Washington (men's tennis). He is the 76th football player to be inducted.