Tag: Ashton Jeanty

Best CFB player of all time 

By: Bryce Hanson

Now when it comes to regular NFL football the MVP is always a quarterback and the GOAT is a quarterback, but College Football is a bit different. College football actually understands that people catch the quarterback’s pass and people run the ball down to the one yard line so that the quarterback could run it in. So today I will be talking about who I think the best college football player of all time is. 

This time I’m doing it a little bit differently, by not doing the criteria, but by sheer skill of the players. Now I know it will be controversial to not put Joe burrow and Tim Tebow but these people had the talent around them to make them good. The difference between them and the players I’m about to name is that these players created for themselves and their talent did the winning. First I’ll talk about Ashton Jeanty, who plays for a sorry Boise State team and took them to the College Football Playoff. He is breaking we haven’t seen be touched in thirty years with a people stacking the box every down. Now I already hear people saying he’s playing bad competition but he had a legacy game against the number one team in the nation. He definitely deserves to be in the conversation for the best. Next is Reggie Bush who had the Heisman taken away from him but it still doesn’t take away from his talent. Like Jeanty, Bush faced loaded boxes and still put up insane numbers. Also like Jeanty the PAC 10 wasn’t the strongest defensive conference back then but he still played good team and had great performances. 

Who Will Win the Heisman Race?

By: Henry Jones

I usually talk about the NFL regarding my favorite team, the Arizona Cardinals, but in this blog I will be answering the question of who I think is most favored to win the Heisman award this year in college football. For a long time, the Heisman award has been seen as a quarterback award, such as the MVP Award in the NFL. However, that narrative has a chance to change this year because of two generational players : Ashton Jeanty and Travis Hunter. Both are spectacular athletes and put up video game number statistics. To begin, Ashton Jeanty has been amazing his year. He is putting up unbelievable rushing amounts every game and is on pace for 2,912 rushing yards, shattering Barry Sanders’s college rushing record of 2,628. This record has been standing for a very long time and some thought of it as unbreakable. Paired with these mass amounts of yards, Jeanty also has 19 touchdowns. Keep in mind that Jeanty has only played 6 games. This means that he is also on pace for 38 total touchdowns breaking the touchdown record for running backs as well.

Next, Travis Hunter is another guy who can’t be talked about enough. His main point of argument of why he should win the Heisman is that he plays both sides of the ball. This means he plays offense and defense. Not only does he play offense and defense, but he plays both of them extremely well. Hunter has 604 yards receiving and six touchdowns this year. Now normally people would look at that and see an above average receiver at best, but when you watch the film and see him making these spectacular contested catches over defenders heads, then you will see him as the player he truly is. This paired with the fact that he is also tied for the third best corner in the nation with a coverage ranking of 81.2 and two interceptions on the year proves why he is a solid contender for Heisman.

To wrap up, I do think that the race will be extremely close this year because the two players are very competitive and both want it very bad. However, due to Jeanty’s immense aura when carrying the ball, I have to think that he is the favorite to take home the trophy.