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Is Winning The Heisman Trophy Overrated?

Article By on 29th November, 2009

... player in collegiate football each year. Most of the time the award is given to a senior player and every so often a junior or sophomore player has won it but a freshman has never won the Heisman.

The Heisman is supposed to represent the best college football player in the country but does that success translate over to the NFL?

The Heisman has been handed out 74 times with 73 different winners. Archie Griffin is the only player to have won the award twice when he played for Ohio State and won it in 1974 and 1975. Of the 73 winners only eight of them have actually gone on to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Since 2000 there have been seven winners that have gone on to play in the NFL. Of the seven only Reggie Bu...

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