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What defensive players should have won the Heisman?

Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:13 pm
Posted by diddlydawg7
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:13 pm
Everyone says Peyton Manning got robbed by Charles Woodson.

So let me ask you, what defensive player, if any, should have won the Heisman?

Derrick Thomas?
Lawrence Taylor?
David Pollack?
Posted by Maximus
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:14 pm to
Tyrann Mathieu
Posted by AU_RX
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:15 pm to
Suh
Posted by diddlydawg7
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:16 pm to
Maybe in a different year. RG3 was pretty good that year.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:18 pm to
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Suh


Wasn’t in the right year. Ingram, Gerhart, McCoy, and Tebow were all co-finalists with him.
Posted by diddlydawg7
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:19 pm to
I’ve always felt that it was ridiculously stupid to believe that the best player in CFB is always on offense.

Guys like Mathieu, Suh, etc. are so much better than the average player at the position.

In fact, I think the best player in CFB is a defensive player 65% of the time.
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:24 pm to
Mathieu and Suh absolutely.

Posted by footswitch
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:26 pm to
Hugh Greene
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:27 pm to
quote:

Tyrann Mathieu


Easy
Posted by TheWalrus
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:44 pm to
Chase Young
Posted by Tigerfan56
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:49 pm to
Derek Stingley
Posted by VADawg
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:12 pm to
Suh was terrifying in 2009. The lasting image of him that year is him throwing Colt McCoy around like a ragdoll for four quarters. He almost won that game by himself.
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:16 pm to
Honey Badger
Posted by BCLA
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:24 pm to
I think that if Mathieu didn't get suspended for that game and kept himself otherwise out of trouble he would've won it.

He dominated on 2/3 of the game.
Posted by ATLTiger
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:26 pm to
Champ Bailey
Posted by JodyPlauche
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:33 pm to
Chase Young
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 12:25 am to
Steve Entman

Who he lost out to:

Desmond Howard
Casey Weldon
Ty Detmer

“I said before the game no one has blocked Emtman in two years,” said Dick Tomey, the Arizona coach. “We think we’ve got the schemes to handle him and he is in our backfield the first two plays of the game.”

Entman won the Lombardi and Outland. And was picked #1 in the draft. That's how good he was in College. His Pro career nothwithstanding, that was how well he was thought of in College.

And Kenny Easley...First Pac-10 player to be All-Conference for four consecutive years.

Consensus All-American 3 years in a row.

He had 9 Ints. his freshman year in 10 games.
Posted by ThePTExperience1969
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 1:11 am to
TM7 baby the Honey Badger
Posted by ThePTExperience1969
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 1:14 am to
Hugh Green, think he finished 2nd in 80 to George Rogers (ha!)
Posted by TxTiger82
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 1:19 am to
quote:

Derrick Thomas?
Lawrence Taylor?
David Pollack?


One of these is not like the others ...
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