The explosive sophomore is a dynamic runner, pass catcher and kick returner, and surpassed Barry Sanders’ NCAA record for most all-purpose yards in a single season (3,250).
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The junior running back capped his Heisman campaign with a 189-yard, one touchdown performance in the SEC Championship game against Florida.
Henry, considered the favorite for the trophy, shared the Alabama workload past year.
Watson threw for 289 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 131 yards and two scores to set ACC Championship records for total yards and touchdowns. The 81st victor of the stiff-arm trophy will be announced Saturday night on ESPN late in a show that begins at 8 ET. Needless to say, he is the nation’s leader in terms of all-purpose yards, but Henry is the nation’s leading rusher.
Shaw led Stanford to its third Pac-12 Conference title in the past four years on Saturday night by beating USC, 41-22. QB Deshaun Watson Watson isn’t just the quarterback of the top-ranked Tigers, college football’s last remaining unbeaten team.
Mark Ingram of Alabama in 2009 was the last running back – and only Crimson Tide player – to win the Heisman. He also rushed for 887 yards and 11 touchdowns.
“The Heisman Trophy has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid and the chance to go to NY as a finalist is wonderful, but none of this would be possible without my coaches and teammates”, Henry said in a statement.
“It would mean everything”, Henry said of winning the Heisman. The players that are invited to NY are the ones who have separated themselves from the rest of the field by collecting the most votes.
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Deshaun Watson rarely panics, not as a high school star in Georgia watching his mother fight cancer or as Clemson’s quarterback working to come back from knee surgery.
The SEC record is remarkable in a conference that has produced several great runners through the yet, and it’s whose record Henry broke that is even more telling.
The victor of the Heisman Trophy will be announced on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the Best Buy Theater in NY.
Case For: The most versatile player in all of the college football world is Stanford’s own, Christian McCaffrey. Heisman candidacy has been dominated by the quarterback position this century. And while Fournette was certainly not to blame for LSU’s embarrassing defeat at the hands of Ole Miss the next week, the Tigers’ three-game losing streak and ensuing head coaching fiasco put the team in the national headlines for all the wrong reasons.
McCaffrey might have half the touchdowns of Henry, but he had more yards from scrimmage (2,387 to 2,083) on only 11 more touches, against a comparable schedule, and with less help around him.
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Stanford has produced more than its share of runners-up for the game’s most prestigious award.
