Sporting News: Who could make a defense-only Heisman happen

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When Texas won the Big 12 championship game with a last-second field goal to beat Nebraska, it ended any realistic shot Huskers defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh had of winning the Heisman Trophy. Suh's spectacular play that night and his overwhelming 2009 season were almost enough to make him the first defense-only player to win the award (cornerback Charles Woodson, the 1997 winner, also was a return specialist), but he finished fourth in the voting.
The top defensive Heisman candidates for 2010:

DT Jared Crick, Jr., Nebraska

Why: He put up similar numbers to Suh's last season but benefited from the fact Suh was doubled-teamed.

Suh says: "He's a beast. He didn't get near the credit he should have gotten last year. Maybe too much was given to me. He helped me develop as much as I helped him. If people think there's going to be a letdown, they're crazy."

CB Patrick Peterson, Jr., LSU

Why: He takes receivers out of games with blanket coverage. Case in point: He got dinged up against Alabama and left the game, and the Tide immediately threw to Julio Jones for a momentum-turning 73-yard touchdown. Jones didn't catch a pass on Peterson the entire game.

LSU coach Les Miles says: "We're biased, but we don't think there's a better cornerback in the country. A terrific football player, a guy that can force you, as an offense, to do things you don't want to do. That's the true measure of the great ones."

DE Adrian Clayborn, Sr., Iowa

Why: It took awhile, but Clayborn has bought into coach Kirk Ferentz's philosophy and developed into the Big Ten's best defensive player. He can make a big play on any snap.

Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker says: "He's right there with all the great ones we've had here. The improvement he made from (2008) to (2009) was significant. If he works hard to do that again, there's no telling how good he could be."

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i am gonna laugh when teams find out that crick can be just as disruptive as suh was...not as often, but hopefully just enough to make some people scared

 
Nexus said:
When Texas won the Big 12 championship game with a last-second field goal to beat Nebraska, it ended any realistic shot Huskers defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh had of winning the Heisman Trophy. Suh's spectacular play that night and his overwhelming 2009 season were almost enough to make him the first defense-only player to win the award (cornerback Charles Woodson, the 1997 winner, also was a return specialist), but he finished fourth in the voting.
The top defensive Heisman candidates for 2010:

DT Jared Crick, Jr., Nebraska

Why: He put up similar numbers to Suh's last season but benefited from the fact Suh was doubled-teamed.

Suh says: "He's a beast. He didn't get near the credit he should have gotten last year. Maybe too much was given to me. He helped me develop as much as I helped him. If people think there's going to be a letdown, they're crazy."

CB Patrick Peterson, Jr., LSU

Why: He takes receivers out of games with blanket coverage. Case in point: He got dinged up against Alabama and left the game, and the Tide immediately threw to Julio Jones for a momentum-turning 73-yard touchdown. Jones didn't catch a pass on Peterson the entire game.

LSU coach Les Miles says: "We're biased, but we don't think there's a better cornerback in the country. A terrific football player, a guy that can force you, as an offense, to do things you don't want to do. That's the true measure of the great ones."

DE Adrian Clayborn, Sr., Iowa

Why: It took awhile, but Clayborn has bought into coach Kirk Ferentz's philosophy and developed into the Big Ten's best defensive player. He can make a big play on any snap.

Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker says: "He's right there with all the great ones we've had here. The improvement he made from (2008) to (2009) was significant. If he works hard to do that again, there's no telling how good he could be."

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Yeah there is, his name is Prince

 
When Texas won the Big 12 championship game with a last-second field goal to beat Nebraska, it ended any realistic shot Huskers defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh had of winning the Heisman Trophy. Suh's spectacular play that night and his overwhelming 2009 season were almost enough to make him the first defense-only player to win the award (cornerback Charles Woodson, the 1997 winner, also was a return specialist), but he finished fourth in the voting.
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What's truly ironic about this statement is that it was Suh's tremendous play at the end of the game (breaking through the line of scrimmage) that made Colt throw the ball away and likely gave Texas the extra time to kick a field goal. If Suh was 1 second late breaking through the line, then time expires.

So him being good hurt his heisman candidacy? :dunno

 
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