Heisman Trophy definition: A yearly award given to the most outstanding college football player.
What it stands for: Kid, you better be good at something else, because that trophy now walks hand in hand with your doomed professional football career.
The Heisman Trophy is supposed to be the crowning achievement for a college football player. Instead, it has more recently become known as somewhat of a jinx, turning star college players into bona fide NFL busts. But does the coveted hardware really spell doom and gloom for all of its winners? Well no, not all of them. In fact, there have been plenty of college football players who won the Heisman and went on to do very good things in the NFL. Bullz-Eye.com listed every Heisman winner since 1984 and put them into one of two groups: studs and duds. The studs obviously took their Heisman Trophy and hit the ground running, having more than above average success in the NFL, while the duds fizzled out right after hearing the words, “And your Heisman Trophy winner is….”
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Great list.
I’m biased as an OSU fan, but Desmond was a total bust. He sucked as a wide receiver. He was decent as a return man and he was great in that Super Bowl, but in retrospect we would not be drafted in the first couple of rounds.
Sophomore or not, Tim Tebow should win it this year.
It’s Colt Brennan and Tebow, then everybody else, in my opinion.
Tony Kornheiser actually said on PTI that Colt Brennan shouldn’t get the award over Tebow because he plays in a passing offensive system. I’m still scratching my head after that one.