Super Soph, Tebow wins Heisman
The man they call Superman wins the Heisman.
I called it, Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York last night. Though it was closer than I had written about with Tebow getting 1,957 points and 462 first-place votes to Arkansas runningback Darren McFadden’s 1,703 points and 291 first-place votes. Hawaii’s quarterback Colt Brennan was third and Missouri’s quarterback Chase Daniel a distant fourth.
A lot is being made of Tim Tebow winning the Heisman as a sophomore, the first sophomore to win since 1935, when Jay Berwanger of Chicago won the first ever Heisman. And that is significant, but not so much in that the landscape of college football has changed over the past decade. With high school football advancing as quickly as it has, kids coming out of high school these days are better prepared to play in college than ever before.
What Tim Tebow did this year was simply unprecedented. Even if Tim Tebow decides to stay in college next season (which he probably will), I doubt he will have the same kind of season like he did this year. Not because of Tebow himself, but simply because of injuries. To run the ball the way Tebow does, in between the tackles, is not good for a quarterback longterm. If Tebow wants to have a future in pro football, he’s going to have to start thinking about protecting his body. Already this year, in the Florida State game, we saw what can happen when 300 pound lineman sit on top of you.
Congrats to Tim “aka Superman” Tebow, he had a terrific season, and the Heisman is well deserved. Good luck to Tebow and his Gator teammates next month.
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