Derrick Henry’s Sick Grandmother Had The Best Reaction To His Heisman Win

In fact, until the recent run of SEC winners, players from that conference had taken the statuette south just seven times in the trophy’s first 73 years of existence.

No other school has more than three selections to the first team.

Henry made his closing argument in the SEC championship game, where Alabama demolished Florida in a Saturday afternoon window going unopposed on CBS.

Texas A&M freshman receiver Christian Kirk was selected as newcomer of the year. He scored 23 touchdowns this year, most in FBS this year, and tied for the most in SEC history for a single season. The stat which separates Henry the most for me is in the caliber of defense he and Alabama faced. This season, they took me as a leader, guys following behind me, watching me work every day. Henry recorded nine 100-yard games this season, tying the Alabama record held by Ingram and Trent Richardson.

Ragland is not too shabby, either.

That’s nothing new for Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson, who helped to kick off the SEC dynasty in the BCS era with a full-throated campaign during the 2006 SEC championship game for Florida to be included in the BCS title game over MI.

“Mark Ingram was a surprise Heisman victor but if you talk about great running backs, I know this sounds amusing to say you’re forced to list him in there although I think naturally there’s been a long list”, Finebaum says. He also made quite an impact on special teams, returning a couple of punts for touchdowns while leading the SEC with a 24.4-yard average.

Now that the Heisman Trophy has Henry’s name on it. He turns his attention to a much bigger prize.

Georgia was represented by offensive lineman John Theus and safety Dominick Sanders, while Arkansas landed offensive lineman Sebastian Tretola and tight end Hunter Henry on the elite squad. McCaffrey became the fourth Stanford player to finish runnerup in the past seven years, joining Gerhart and Andrew Luck (second to Cam Newton in 2010 and Robert Griffin III in 2011).

Overall, Henry had 378 first-place votes compared to McCaffrey (290), Watson (148) and Mayfield (334).

The 83rd annual AP All-SEC team was selected by a 14-member media panel representing each of the conference’s 11 states.