How BIG is Denard in American Sports?

Denard's receiving a lot of attention on ESPN as the early consensus Heisman favorite. It's been overwhelmingly positive, which isn't surprising for a humble, easy to like kid that's dilithium fast. He's getting a lot of props on highlights and the only non-positive thing said is usually "He's going to get hurt" after showing him torching a defense. Hope this helps.

about 6'0 195 pounds big.

In the past four games our Wolverines have gotten a ton of positive press in the MSM.  It could still be a lot better but a lot of media outlets are still pointing to last year's 4-0 start that ended with a 5-7 overall record with 1-7 in conference.  Denard himself has been interviewed by Erin Andrews, the Big Ten network, ESPN, and has had thousands of other requests.  Thankfully RR has limited his media availability to 1 hour a week.  Aside from Denard, RR has also gotten a lot of positive press as well.  I really think once we get a couple of wins in the Big Ten we're going to see a lot more press in a positive light.  This has helped us get on the radar with some recruits that probably wouldn't have checked us out otherwise.  The excitement level of Michigan fans is very high.  Expectations before the season were not great by any means.  A big win next week will go a long way with our players confidence against the Big Ten.  The more positive press the better our program becomes from all angles.  Should we continue this current pace we're going to see some big time results in recruiting and RR's job security will be a non issue.  It's great to be a Meeeeeechigan Wolverine!!

...he's been called the songbird of his generation.  That big.

The headline for today's (Sunday) NY Times CFB "National Round-up" (cuts from Associated Press) is "Injured Robinson Leaves, but Michigan Stays Positive" with the sole photo Denard being tackled before his injury.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/sports/ncaafootball/26colleges.html?_r=1

There was also a feature article a couple of weeks ago.

As for the word on the street:  While walking on the Upper West Side Friday, ran into a casual friend I haven't seen in a couple of years (a born-and-bred New Yorker) whose greeting was "That Robinson kid is the most exciting player in college football!"

and that's an even better reason to be happy about him right now.

It reminds me of the attention tebow got. There is more skepticism as to if he can keep it up compared to tebow...but still reminds me of it.

with each game he plays, the anticipation of a long Denard run grows. I'm already anticipating an 80 yarder next week against Indiana, just a part of a 200/300 game he's going to have. That Heisman talk that started up might of been just the press stoking the fires of college football fans everywhere about the season, but if he keeps playing the way he has -and he will, barring injury-  he's going to make a trip to the Downtown Athletic Club a certainty.

bigger and bigger on the press.  I really expect that by the end of the season D Rob will front and center like the next Tebow.  Especially after we beat Ohio State in their own house!!  Go BLUE!!

the BGSU game, on the ticker at the bottom in the LEAD STORY category was "Denard Robinson leaves Michigan game with injury, not expected to return"

This was during the freaking game.

I live in North Carolina and I walk my dog in a subdivision every other day wearing Michigan stuff.  People I've never spoken with or never discussed football with are stopping me to ask about Denard.

He mercifully doesn't yet have his own ticker category on ESPN (Tebow, Tiger, Favre...).

Denard seems to be getting more popular each week because he's so damn exciting to watch, not just to us Michigan fans, but to a lot of college football fans and sports fans in general.  A lot of Michigan fans, probably myself included, will say that it's too early to assume that he'll win the Heisman.  I do feel, however, that if Denard keeps it up (especially against OSU), it won't be that he'll have a good chance of winning the Heisman at the end of the season, but that he will win the Heisman because he's that kind of special player.

immediately after the game last Saturday against BG, I headed to the bank for some cash. The teller-in-training, a black man with an accent, was talking with me about how nice the weather was and that I should head to the coast.

I told him that I don't go anywhere on Saturdays during football season. He asked, "Who's your team?" Michigan Wolverines, I answered. "What do you think about that Denard Robinson?" he asked. I answered that it was a well oiled machine with him in there. "Too bad he got hurt" he says. He'll be ok, I said. He'll bounce right back and still end up winning the Heisman more than likely.

The woman behind him says, about the teller-in-training. "It sounds like he knows what he's talking about" and I answered, he does. Anyway he had to start working at 10AM so he could only have caught the first quarter.

Just thought it was interesting to see what a "real deal" Denard is for human interest. Guess we all need a hero!

In a sports clothing store on 16th was a Michigan #16 jersey in the front window.

That's saying something!

Anyone else notice on sportscenter (believe on saturday) they mentioned domething to the tune of "theyre even wearing Heisman shirts on campus spelled HE16MAN"?

He was on the front page of every huge news website (yahoo, msn, espn, si) after he got hurt.