There are about 26 consensus All-Individuals per season. Twenty-four totally different gamers have received a Heisman since 2000. The one factor assured about faculty soccer is that nobody stays too lengthy, and there are at all times new stars.
Are these all excuses for why it is virtually inconceivable to rank the 25 finest faculty soccer gamers of the 2000s? Completely. However we will do it anyway. It is rating season, in any case.
I’ve ranked gamers in a couple of other ways by way of the years: quarterbacks of the 2000s, operating backs of the previous 60 years, receivers of the previous 50 years, defenders of the 2000s. (Sorry, offensive linemen and tight ends. We’ll get to you. And hell, perhaps you, too, kickers and punters.)
Beneath is my try to gingerly weld these lists collectively. It looks like everybody on this record needs to be within the high 10. It looks like there are about 50 extra gamers who needs to be within the high 25. That is inconceivable! However right here goes nothing.
1. DT Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
Key accomplishments: 2009 Lombardi Award, 2009 Outland Award, 2009 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, 2009 AP faculty soccer participant of the 12 months, 2009 Heisman finalist; 49.5 profession tackles for loss, 24 profession sacks, 4 interceptions, 2 touchdowns.
A four-star prospect from Oregon, Suh loved three good years earlier than posting probably the most devastating particular person seasons in faculty soccer historical past. Suh was unblockable in 2009. Regardless of triple-teams, numerous holding penalties (known as and uncalled) and whole sport plans designed to keep away from the center of the sector, he made 20.5 TFLs with 12 sacks. His efficiency within the Large 12 championship sport in opposition to Texas — seven TFLs, 4.5 sacks — was among the many finest ever. I understand we do not give Heismans to defensive gamers, however it’s nonetheless totally inexcusable that he did not win the Heisman that 12 months. Greatest participant of the 2000s and among the best of all time.
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2. QB Baker Mayfield, Texas Tech/Oklahoma
Key accomplishments: 2017 Heisman Trophy, 2017 Maxwell Award, 2017 Walter Camp Award, 2017 Davey O’Brien Award, 2015 and 2016 Burlsworth Trophy, 2017 unanimous All-American, 2015 first-team All-American, 2015 and 2017 Large 12 offensive participant of the 12 months, 2015, 2016 and 2017 first-team All-Large 12; 14,607 passing yards and 131 touchdowns, 1,083 dashing yards and 21 touchdowns.
In three seasons at Oklahoma, after a short cameo as a real freshman walk-on starter at Texas Tech, Mayfield put collectively nearly the most effective mixture of high-volume passing and high-level success you will ever see. He averaged almost 4,100 passing yards per season, he led three straight Large 12 title runs, he went 3-0 in opposition to Oklahoma State and 2-1 in opposition to Texas, and he led street wins at Tennessee and Ohio State.
Mayfield was so good that he ended up because the No. 1 choose within the NFL draft regardless of standing solely 6 ft. The one factor missing from his resume: a nationwide title. But it surely wasn’t for lack of effort. It took the best sport of the CFP period to maintain him from having a shot at it.
3. QB Cam Newton, Florida/Auburn
Key accomplishments: 2010 Heisman Trophy, 2010 Maxwell Award, 2010 Walter Camp Award, 2010 Davey O’Brien Award, 2010 AP nationwide participant of the 12 months, 2010 consensus All-American, 2010 SEC offensive participant of the 12 months, 2010 first-team all-SEC; 2,908 passing yards and 30 TDs, 1,586 dashing yards and 24 TDs.
As soon as thought-about Tim Tebow’s inheritor obvious at Florida, Newton landed at Auburn after a controversial departure and controversial recruitment. And he turned perhaps the most effective one-year marvel in faculty soccer historical past.
Regardless of a protection that allowed not less than 27 factors in half its video games, and regardless of having to play in seven video games with a margin of 1 rating, Auburn received the 2010 nationwide title as a result of the Tigers had Cam and their opponents did not. He threw for two,854 yards and 30 touchdowns and ran for 1,473 yards and 20 extra scores. He rushed for 176 yards and three touchdowns in a single win over South Carolina, then threw for 335 and 4 scores in one other. He led an historic comeback win over Alabama. He outlined a title group as a lot as anybody probably can.
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4. QB Vince Younger, Texas
Key accomplishments: 2005 Davey O’Brien Award, 2005 Maxwell Award, 2005 first-team All-American, 2005 Large 12 offensive participant of the 12 months, 2005 first-team All-Large 12, 2005 nationwide champion; 6,040 profession passing yards and 44 TDs, 3,127 dashing yards and 37 TDs.
For the primary half of his three seasons in Austin, Younger was up and down, an unbelievable athlete who was inconsistent at precise quarterbacking. However halfway by way of his sophomore season in 2004, the whole lot fell into place. As a junior in 2005, Younger turned the primary participant to throw for not less than 3,000 yards and rush for not less than 1,000 in the identical season — simply 5 years earlier, it had been a giant deal that Clemson’s Woody Dantzler hit even 2,000/1,000. And in Younger’s last sport, he threw for 267 yards and rushed for 200 and three scores as Texas knocked off USC in in all probability the best sport of the twenty first century.
An ideal ending to an ideal profession arc.
5. S Ed Reed, Miami
Key accomplishments: 2001 unanimous All-American, 2001 Large East defensive participant of the 12 months, 2001 nationwide champion, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame; 288 profession tackles, 21 interceptions (fourth in NCAA historical past), 31 cross breakups, 4 compelled fumbles, 4 blocked punts, 5 touchdowns.
Essentially the most memorable participant from considered one of faculty soccer’s most memorable groups. After recording 5 sacks as a linebacker in 1999, Reed moved to extra of a security function and proceeded to choose off 17 passes, together with 4 pick-sixes, in 2000-01. He additionally was answerable for probably the most iconic performs of the century.
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Flashback: Ed Reed strips ball from teammate for Hurricanes pick-six
After an interception, Ed Reed strips the ball from his teammate and takes it for a landing to seal Miami’s win vs. Boston Faculty throughout the 2001 season.
6. QB Tim Tebow, Florida
Key accomplishments: 2007 Heisman Trophy, 2007 and 2008 Maxwell Award, 2007 Davey O’Brien Award, 2007 AP faculty soccer participant of the 12 months, 2007 consensus All-American, 2008 and 2009 SEC offensive participant of the 12 months, 2007, 2008 and 2009 first-team All-SEC, 2006 and 2008 nationwide champion; 9,285 profession passing yards and 88 TDs, 2,947 dashing yards and 57 TDs.
After serving as a short-yardage, crimson zone specialist throughout Florida’s 2006 nationwide title run, Tebow moved into the beginning lineup as a sophomore and instantly turned the game’s finest and most defining participant. He received the Heisman in 2007 whereas combining 3,286 passing yards with 895 dashing yards and 55 complete TDs. He produced 77 extra touchdowns in 2008 and ’09, main Florida to a nationwide title in 2008 and developing simply quick in a quest for a 3rd ring as a senior. Does your house stadium have a plaque immortalizing a postgame speech from its beginning quarterback? As a result of Florida’s does.
7. RB Reggie Bush, USC
Key accomplishments: 2005 Heisman Trophy (for actual!), 2005 Doak Walker Award, 2005 Walter Camp Award, 2005 AP nationwide participant of the 12 months, 2004 and 2005 consensus All-American, 2004 and 2005 Pac-10 offensive participant of the 12 months; 3,169 profession dashing yards and 25 touchdowns, 1,301 profession receiving yards and 13 touchdowns; 4 profession return touchdowns (one kickoff, three punt).
It was like watching a participant from the long run. Bush was equally scary by way of run or cross. He was not solely sooner than everybody else, he additionally appeared to have totally different instincts. He noticed and tried issues others could not. And if you happen to could not rein him in earlier than he bought to the sting, he was going to hit the afterburners.
All of Bush’s strengths coalesced in a single good night. In a wild, late-season monitor meet in opposition to Fresno State, Bush produced 294 dashing yards, 68 receiving yards and 151 return yards. In a single sport.
8. OT Bryant McKinnie, Miami
Key accomplishments: 2001 Outland Trophy, 2001 unanimous All-American, 2000 and 2001 first-team All-Large East, eighth within the 2001 Heisman voting as an offensive lineman, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame.
For all of the absurd skill-corps expertise Miami had throughout its early 2000s renaissance — Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee, Frank Gore, Reggie Wayne, Santana Moss, Najeh Davenport, Jeremy Shockey, Andre Johnson, James Jackson, Kellen Winslow II — it additionally had probably the most devastating offensive line in faculty soccer to lean on when it wanted to. And that line was at its finest when McKinnie was main the way in which. Even by the requirements of massive offensive linemen, McKinnie stood out — he measured at 6-foot-8, 343 kilos on the NFL mix — and when Miami had 11 gamers chosen within the 2002 NFL draft, his was the primary title known as.
9. QB Joe Burrow, Ohio State/LSU
Key accomplishments: 2019 Heisman Trophy, 2019 Davey O’Brien Award, 2019 Walter Camp Award, 2019 Maxwell Award, 2019 AP nationwide participant of the 12 months, 2019 unanimous All-American, 2019 SEC offensive participant of the 12 months, 2019 first-team all-SEC, 2019 nationwide champion; 8,852 profession passing yards and 78 TDs, 820 dashing yards and 13 TDs.
You’ll find loads of individuals who assume 2019 LSU was the best group of the century, perhaps of all time. I am not right here to relitigate that argument, however I am going to say this a lot: LSU was undoubtedly one of many coolest groups ever, and the man behind middle had so much to do with that. After discovering a special degree late in 2018, his first season as LSU starter, Burrow began 2019 in fifth gear and stayed there all 12 months. He accomplished an otherworldly 76% of his passes at greater than 14 yards per completion, he threw for not less than 320 yards 13 occasions, and he produced probably the most unbelievable two-game CFP efficiency you will ever see: 60-for-88 passing for 956 yards, 12 touchdowns and no interceptions.
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Burrow’s six-TD efficiency leads LSU to nationwide title
Joe Burrow outduels Trevor Lawrence as he passes for 463 yards and 5 touchdowns whereas including one other TD on the bottom to guide LSU to a 42-25 defeat of Clemson within the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship.
10. WR Larry Fitzgerald, Pittsburgh
Key accomplishments: 2003 Heisman runner-up, 2003 Biletnikoff Award, 2003 Walter Camp Award, 2003 Large East offensive participant of the 12 months, 2003 unanimous All-American, 2003 first-team All-Large East, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame; 2,677 profession receiving yards and 34 touchdowns.
Fitzgerald introduced himself as a freshman, posting 103 yards on Texas A&M in his second profession sport and topping 1,000 yards for the season. However in 2003, he pulled off one thing magical. He scored not less than one landing in 12 straight video games (18 straight courting again to the earlier season), and he led the nation in touchdowns from scrimmage. He gained not less than 100 yards 10 occasions and topped 200 yards twice. His velocity was glorious, his method good. And whereas not each nice faculty participant hits it massive within the execs, Fitzgerald turned one of many best ever within the NFL, gaining 1,000 yards 9 occasions and taking part in till he was 37.
11. DE Terrell Suggs, Arizona State
Key accomplishments: 2002 Lombardi Award, 2002 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, 2002 unanimous All-American, 2002 Pac-10 defensive participant of the 12 months; 65 TFLs and 44 sacks — in three seasons!
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“It was magical to observe,” former ASU security Jason Shivers instructed the Arizona Republic in 2018. “Guys had been frightened of him. They had been frightened of his velocity and so they had been frightened of his quickness.” Are you able to blame them? After an excellent pair of seasons in 2000 and 2001, the 6-3, 265-pound Suggs put collectively perhaps the most effective defensive season ever by a man not named Suh. In 2002, one man recorded 24 sacks and 31 complete TFLs. He completed his profession with 46 complete sacks, most of anybody within the 2000s, and he went on to document 139 sacks (he hit double digits seven occasions) in a 17-year NFL profession.
12. OT Joe Thomas, Wisconsin
Key accomplishments: 2006 Outland Trophy, 2006 unanimous All-American, 2005 and 2006 first-team All-Large Ten, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame.
Despite the fact that virtually nobody within the sport has produced as many road-grading linemen as Wisconsin during the last 30 or so years, Thomas stands out amongst all these superior Badgers. An all-conference shot putter and discus thrower on the aspect, the Brookfield, Wisconsin, native moved into the beginning lineup at left deal with as a real sophomore in 2004 and was among the best within the nation in 2005. In 2006, returning to high school after tearing his ACL within the bowl sport the 12 months earlier than, he was untouchable. He blocked for a 1,500-yard rusher for the second straight 12 months and have become the primary Badger to win the Outland Trophy.
Oh yeah, after which he did it another time within the execs, incomes All-Professional honors eight occasions in 11 years and reaching the Corridor of Fame there too.
13. LB Khalil Mack, Buffalo
Key accomplishments: 2013 first-team All-American, 2013 Jack Lambert Trophy, 2013 MAC defensive participant of the 12 months, three-time first-team All-MAC, most profession TFLs and compelled fumbles (since 2005); 327 profession tackles, 74.5 TFLs, 28.5 sacks, 16 compelled fumbles, 4 interceptions, 2 touchdowns.
He performed just one 12 months of highschool soccer and due to this fact did not actually seem on recruiters’ radar. He landed at Buffalo, which was simply unfair to the remainder of the MAC. Mack made between 14.5 and 21 TFLs for 4 straight seasons, rising his sack totals yearly (he peaked at 10.5 in 2013) and even choosing off three passes and returning two for touchdowns as a senior. And when he bought an opportunity to indicate out in opposition to Ohio State, he was the most effective participant on the sector.
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14. DT Aaron Donald, Pittsburgh
Key accomplishments: 2013 Lombardi Award, 2013 Outland Trophy, 2013 Bednarik Award, 2013 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, 2013 unanimous All-American, 2013 ACC defensive participant of the 12 months, 2012 and 2013 first-team all-conference; 181 tackles, 66 TFLs, 29.5 sacks, 10 cross breakups, 6 compelled fumbles.
A midlevel recruit who started his profession as a backup, Donald simply slowly bought higher, and higher, and higher. He loved a stunning breakout season with 16 TFLs and 11 sacks as a sophomore in 2011, he jumped to 18.5 TFLs (because the group’s No. 3 main tackler!) as a junior, then actually took off. As a senior in 2013, he made 28.5 TFLs — together with six in opposition to Georgia Tech’s choice assault — with 11 sacks. And since he was listed solely at 6-1, 280 kilos, 12 NFL groups one way or the other talked themselves out of drafting him in 2014. He fell all the way in which to the Rams at thirteenth.
15. DE David Pollack, Georgia
Key accomplishments: 2004 Chuck Bednarik Award, 2004 Lombardi Award, 2003 and 2004 Ted Hendricks Award, 2003 and 2004 consensus All-American, three-time first-team All-American, 2003 and 2004 SEC defensive participant of the 12 months, three-time first-team All-SEC, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame; 36 profession sacks.
After a very nondescript freshman season, Pollack introduced himself to school soccer followers with probably the most spectacular defensive performs you will ever see.
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One play catapults David Pollack to stardom
Former Georgia DE David Pollack describes how one play vs. South Carolina catapulted him to fame within the Georgia soccer neighborhood.
From there, he simply saved making performs. Even this record is not precisely overflowing with three-time All-Individuals, however he was a first-teamer in 2002, 2003 and 2004. His standing was maybe diminished by a fast and injury-plagued professional profession, however make no mistake: Pollack was devastating in faculty.
16. QB Deshaun Watson, Clemson
Key accomplishments: 2015 and 2016 Davey O’Brien Award, 2015 consensus All-American, 2015 ACC participant of the 12 months, 2015 first-team All-ACC, 2016 nationwide champion; 10,163 profession passing yards and 90 TDs, 1,934 dashing yards and 26 TDs.
Beneath Dabo Swinney, Clemson was an intriguing however irritating program when Watson confirmed up on campus. It was a nationwide powerhouse, Alabama’s equal, when Watson left. He tantalized as a freshman earlier than tearing his ACL, however in his last two seasons the Tigers went 28-2, dropping a down-to-the-wire basic in opposition to Bama within the 2015 nationwide title sport, then successful one in 2016. He threw for 8,697 yards and 76 touchdowns in these two seasons and, regardless of the knee points, rushed for 1,734 yards and 21 scores in that span as effectively. He was the primary man to mix 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 dashing yards in a season, and the ultimate cross of his profession was a title-winning landing. Onerous to high that.
17. S Roy Williams, Oklahoma
Key accomplishments: 2001 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, 2001 Jim Thorpe Award, 2001 Jack Tatum Trophy, 2001 unanimous All-American, 2001 Large 12 defensive participant of the 12 months, 2000 and 2001 first-team All-Large 12, 2000 nationwide champion; 35 TFLs, 9 sacks, 9 interceptions, 49 cross breakups.
How good was Roy Williams? In 2001, he topped Ed Reed to win the Nagurski, Thorpe and Tatum awards. That is virtually all that must be mentioned. Few gamers are extra revered than Reed, and in 2001, voting media both thought-about Williams and Reed equals or gave Williams the sting.
There’s additionally the truth that he might fly.
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Williams’ Superman leap seals Oklahoma’s win
On Oct. 6, 2001, Roy Williams flies by way of the air and hits Texas QB Chris Simms, forcing an INT to Teddy Lehman to safe the Sooners’ win.
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18. QB Kyler Murray, Texas A&M/Oklahoma
Key accomplishments: 2018 Heisman Trophy, 2018 Davey O’Brien Award, 2018 AP nationwide participant of the 12 months, 2018 massive 12 offensive participant of the 12 months, 2018 first-team All-American, 2018 first-team All-Large 12; 5,406 profession passing yards and 50 TDs, 1,478 dashing yards and 13 TDs.
If Cam Newton was the most effective one-year marvel, Murray was second finest. After backing up Baker Mayfield and weighing knowledgeable baseball profession, Murray took faculty soccer by storm in 2018. He turned the second 4,000/1,000 quarterback after Watson, combining 4,361 passing yards with 1,001 dashing yards and 54 complete touchdowns. He threw for not less than 300 yards 10 occasions, rushed for not less than 90 yards 5 occasions and led OU to not less than 34 factors 13 occasions. Regardless of a dreadful protection, OU received one other Large 12 title and reached a 3rd straight CFP because of Murray, who elected to forego a baseball profession to develop into the No. 1 choose within the NFL as a substitute.
19. WR DeVonta Smith, Alabama
Key accomplishments: 2020 Heisman Trophy, 2020 Walter Camp Award, 2020 Maxwell Award, 2020 AP faculty soccer participant of the 12 months, 2020 unanimous All-American, 2020 SEC offensive participant of the 12 months, 2019 and 2020 first-team All-SEC, 2017 and 2020 nationwide champion; 3,965 profession receiving yards and 46 touchdowns, one profession punt return landing.
A member of a transformative Alabama receiver haul (which featured two different elite receivers in Jerry Jeudy and Henry Ruggs), Smith was a job participant for a lot of his freshman season. However he caught the ultimate cross of the 12 months, a second-and-26 additional time bomb from Tua Tagovailoa to win the nationwide title.
That despatched him on his approach. He gained 100 yards twice as a sophomore (together with as soon as within the CFP semifinals), then broke out as a junior, gaining 1,256 yards with 14 scores. And as a senior, he was in all probability the most effective participant in faculty soccer. The numbers are staggering. In simply 13 video games he caught 117 balls for 1,856 yards and 23 touchdowns. He had 13 for 164 in opposition to Ole Miss, 11 for 203 in opposition to Mississippi State, eight for 231 in opposition to LSU, 15 for 184 in opposition to Florida and, within the nationwide title sport, 12 for 215 in opposition to Ohio State. He simply saved getting higher and higher.
20. QB Lamar Jackson, Louisville
Key accomplishments: 2016 Heisman Trophy, 2016 Walter Camp Award, 2016 Maxwell Award, 2016 AP nationwide participant of the 12 months, 2016 unanimous All-American, 2016 and 2017 ACC participant of the 12 months, 2016 and 2017 first-team All-ACC; 9,043 profession passing yards and 69 TDs, 4,132 dashing yards and 50 TDs.
Whereas Vince Younger was the primary participant to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the identical season, Jackson was the primary man to do it twice. And he topped 3,500 and 1,500 every year within the course of. After serving discover by throwing for 227 yards and dashing for 226 in opposition to Texas A&M within the last sport of his freshman season, Jackson produced stats we would by no means seen earlier than in 2016. One might make the case that his early 2016 efficiency in opposition to Syracuse was the one finest we have ever seen.
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Lamar Jackson taking faculty soccer by storm
Louisville QB Lamar Jackson follows up his eight-touchdown efficiency in Week 1 by combining for 5 touchdowns and a complete of 610 yards within the Cardinals’ win over Syracuse.
Jackson threw for 411 yards and rushed for 207, producing iconic play after iconic play. He would go on to torch even higher defenses, however the Syracuse sport was close to perfection.
21. WR Justin Blackmon, Oklahoma State
Key accomplishments: 2010 and 2011 Biletnikoff Award, 2010 and 2011 Paul Warfield Trophy, 2010 and 2011 unanimous All-American, 2010 and 2011 first-team All-Large 12, 2010 Large 12 offensive participant of the 12 months; 3,648 receiving yards and 40 touchdowns.
Generally the whole lot out of the blue clicks. Blackmon adopted a fairly regular developmental trajectory for some time, signing with OSU as a three-star recruit, redshirting in his first 12 months in Stillwater, then catching a pedestrian 20 balls for 260 yards in 2009. After which, click on, he turned nearly the most effective participant in faculty soccer. He caught 111 passes for 1,782 yards and 20 scores as a sophomore, pacing an 11-win season and AP top-15 end for the Cowboys. In 2011, he replicated his efforts (122 for 1,522 and 18 scores) as OSU charged to inside a millimeter of the BCS championship sport. He was the best participant on Oklahoma State’s best group.
22. LB Will Anderson Jr., Alabama
Key accomplishments: 2021 and 2022 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, 2022 Chuck Bednarik Award, 2021 and 2022 unanimous All-American, 2021 and 2022 SEC defensive participant of the 12 months, 2021 and 2022 first-team All-SEC, 2020 nationwide champion; 205 profession tackles, 62 TFLs, 34.5 sacks, 1 interception, 1 landing.
Will Anderson Jr. was so good that he might make a 17-TFL, 10-sack season really feel underwhelming. That is what he posted as a junior in 2022; it topped his freshman breakout 12 months in 2020 (10.5 TFLs and 7 sacks), however it could not high what he did in 2021, when he briefly reached a special aircraft of existence.
Let’s speak about that 2021 season for a second. Anderson was credited with 34.5 TFLs and 17.5 sacks. He had not less than two TFLs in 11 video games and hit 4 in opposition to each Mississippi State and LSU. It was prison that he completed solely fifth within the Heisman voting; Bryce Younger received the Heisman that 12 months, however Younger wasn’t even the most effective participant on personal group!
23. S Tyrann Mathieu, LSU
Key accomplishments: 2011 Chuck Bednarik Award, 2011 consensus All-American, 2011 SEC defensive participant of the 12 months, 2011 first-team All-SEC; 133 tackles, 16 TFLs, six sacks, 8 interceptions, 12 breakups, 11 compelled fumbles, 8 fumble recoveries, 4 touchdowns.
The Honey Badger makes this record regardless of taking part in solely two collegiate seasons. However he made probably the most of his alternatives, posting a few of the finest numbers we have ever seen from a real freshman in 2010 (8.5 TFLs, 4.5 sacks, 2 interceptions, 5 compelled fumbles), then elevating his sport and taking part in a key function in probably the most iconic defenses — and perhaps probably the most iconic secondary — of the twenty first century.
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How Tyrann Mathieu turned generally known as the Honey Badger
Relive Tyrann Mathieu’s ferocious type of play at LSU that earned him his Honey Badger nickname.
Mathieu completed fifth within the Heisman voting in 2011, scoring 4 touchdowns (two by way of punt return, two by way of fumble return), making 7.5 TFLs and forcing six fumbles. Solely seven gamers have compelled extra fumbles within the 2000s, and so they all performed greater than two seasons. He is among the most relentless gamers this sport has seen.
24. DE Julius Peppers, North Carolina
Key accomplishments: 2001 Lombardi Award, 2001 Chuck Bednarik Award, 2001 unanimous All-American, 2000 and 2001 first-team All-ACC, Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame; 167 tackles, 53 TFLs, 30.5 sacks, 5 interceptions, 5 compelled fumbles, 3 touchdowns.
There is a fairly simple case for Julius Peppers to rank a lot larger on this record: Nobody else right here posted a double-double in an NCAA (basketball) match sport. Peppers was only a staggering athletic specimen, measuring 6-7, 283 kilos and operating a 4.7 40 on the NFL mix. And after a strong redshirt freshman marketing campaign (10 TFLs, six sacks), he went from good to nice, main the nation with 15 sacks as a sophomore and incomes Heisman votes as a junior. He went second within the 2002 NFL draft and ended up a Corridor of Famer at two totally different ranges of the game.
25. RB Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin
Key accomplishments: 2018 and 2019 Doak Walker Award winner, 2018 and 2019 unanimous All-American, three-time first-team All-Large Ten (2017, 2018, 2019); 6,174 profession dashing yards and 50 touchdowns (No. 4 all time, No. 2 within the Large Ten), 407 profession receiving yards and 5 touchdowns.
A two-time, 2,000-yard rusher, Taylor was an inevitable presence. He rushed for 223 yards in his second profession sport, he carried the ball not less than 18 occasions in 35 video games, he rushed for not less than 100 yards on 32 events, and he topped 200 yards 12 occasions. And in a triple-overtime win over Purdue in 2018, he painted his masterpiece: 33 carries, 321 yards and three touchdowns, together with an 80-yarder and the game-winner.
First 10 out (alphabetical)WR Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech (2007-08)DE Dwight Freeney, Syracuse (1998-01)OT Robert Gallery, Iowa (2000-03)QB Robert Griffin III, Baylor (2008-11)WR Calvin Johnson, Georgia Tech (2004-06)LB Derrick Johnson, Texas (2001-04)LB Luke Kuechly, Boston Faculty (2009-11)QB Trevor Lawrence, Clemson (2018-20)QB Marcus Mariota, Oregon (2012-14)RB Christian McCaffrey, Stanford (2014-16)
