Crowded Heisman Field for 2016 Starts With Watson, McCaffrey

LSU running back Leonard Fournette came up short in the voting for the award for best college running back. The Tide stuffed Fournette and Henry ran for 210 yards and three touchdowns on 38 carries, assuming the role of front-runner. He followed that by rushing for 204 yards against Mississippi State, 271 yards on 46 carries against Auburn and 189 yards on 44 carries against Florida.

The 6-foot-3, 242-pound Henry is perhaps the leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy. Bush saw McCaffrey play last Saturday night in the Pac-12 Championship Game against USC at Levi’s Stadium, which he attended to support his alma mater, and to be recognized as a member of the Pac-12’s All-Century Team.

Anybody ever tried to tackle a freight train? However, Henry had too much momentum heading into the SEC title game and will hear his name called Saturday evening in New York City.

“It was more about a bunch of parents getting together and complaining”, Dunlap said. Once settled in at the hotel, Henry, dressed in an Alabama jumpsuit, leaned back in a chair and shrugged his shoulders. For college coaches, there is no sense trying to save that talent.

Watson’s mother, Deann, was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue while Watson was still in high school and in 2011 underwent a full glossectomy, the removal of her cancerous tongue taking tissue from her breast to reconstruct her tongue.

Overall I think this year the Heisman ceremony will be interesting because the favorites are running backs and the race still appears wide open. “I’m just happy to be here”. So, everybody was happy with him…. “Always fought for what he’s earned, and I really look up to that and respect that”. These college guys need to get together with the networks and work out a better schedule. Williams, who grew up watching Watson play for the Gainesville High football team, once dressed up as the quarterback for Halloween.

Shoot, Henry should be given some kind of award for just making Saban smile. Clemson has never had a Heisman victor.

The sophomore is the top dual-threat quarterback in the country, having rushed for most than 100 yards in four of the past five games.

He’s second in the nation in the nation in rushing yards (1,847) behind Henry and fifth in yards per game (142.1). Blake was a good one, but the difference between Deshaun and Blake was, the quarterback position was nearly made for (Watson).

If you’re into the Heisman as a most valuable player award, Baker Mayfield transformed Oklahoma, finished as the No. 2-rated passer behind Oregon’s resurgent Vernon Adams Jr., threw 35 touchdown passes, threw only five interceptions and rushed for a helpful 420 yards. “I just knew that if I could control what I control and take it one game at a time, I would eventually be here”. His mother, Lisa, played soccer at Stanford and is the daughter of Olympic silver medal-winning sprinter David Sime. “Nobody’s doing what he’s doing”.

Shaw has a point. But that margin of 139 rushing yards isn’t almost enough to make up for the fact that McCaffrey is an exponentially better receiver and returner than Henry.

McCaffrey gained 3,496 yards in a bewildering array of ways, the most yards anybody has ever trampled on American fields in a college season, even after decades upon decades of college players straining to gain yardage. And in the process, he broke the all-time college football mark for all-purpose yards in a season – ironically held by the great Barry Sanders, whose son Barry J. Sanders is McCaffrey’s backfield mate at Stanford.

“The thing that is unique is that he has great patience in letting the blocks set up”, said Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez.

Last year John Huarte celebrated the 50th anniversary of his Heisman Trophy, won after a stellar 9-1 season at Notre Dame in which he passed for 2,062 yards and 16 touchdowns. He already beat out Watson and McCaffrey for the Maxwell Award as the nation’s top player.