Roll Henry! Alabama’s super-sized running back wins Heisman

Additionally, Henry has already received the Doak Walker Award, which is given to the country’s best running back, as well as the Maxwell Award, which is presented to the country’s top college football player. Derrick, a running back, and Deshaun, a quarterback, are moving on to College Football Playoff semi-final games and superstar quarterback Christian’s Stanford Cardinal will be facing Iowa In the Rose Bowl after beating the University of Southern California for the Pac-12 Championship.

Henry is the first running back to win the Heisman since Ingram, and since the Heisman Trust stripped USC tailback Reggie Bush of his 2005 trophy, the pair of Alabama stars are the only non-quarterbacks to win the most famous trophy in American sports this century (Ron Dayne of Wisconsin won in 1999). Henry accounted for 36 percent of Alabama’s total yards and 42 percent of its total touchdowns in 2015.

Henry, who admitted he was nervous before the ceremony, delivered a seven-minute speech in which he thanked everyone from his family to Scott Cochran. He totaled 3,496 all-purpose yards, over than 1,000 yards more than any other player this year. He broke Herschel Walker’s single-season SEC rushing record.

Derrick Henry won the trophy with 1832 votes, while Christian McCaffrey finished second with 1539 and Watson finished third with 1165. McCaffrey finished second in the voting with 1,539 points (290 first place votes), while Watson finished third with 1,165 points (148 first place votes).

However, one of the interesting things about the three finalists that were in NY on Saturday night, McCaffrey and Watson, is that they will be returning to their respective programs next season as they are not yet eligible for the NFL Draft.

Watson and the Clemson Tigers will play in the College Football Playoff Semifinals against the Oklahoma Sooners. He broke Barry Sanders’ NCAA record for all-purpose yards in one season. Henry’s 23 rushing scores tied a conference record.

Florida State running back Dalvin Cook: All he did was be more efficient with his touches than anyone else in the country, rushing for 1,658 yards and 18 touchdowns.

Congratulations and Roll Tide to Derrick Henry! As the season wore on and McCaffrey got more and more run, his candidacy for the Heisman Trophy became increasingly more hard to ignore. That’s McCaffrey. He was outstanding in more ways than anyone else this season.

Henry became Alabama’s fifth Heisman finalist in the past seven years. Quarterback Andrew Luck finished second in 2010 and 2011 to Cam Newton and Robert Griffin III, respectively and running back Toby Gerhart came in second to Ingram in 2009.

“It’s kind of a surreal feeling that somebody that I played with is up for this really prestigious award”, said Dillon Reinkensmeyer, a senior who played with McCaffrey.