Pro Football Focus gives their Heisman award to Corum

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Heisman is a QB award. Only handed out to a non-QB when there are no great QBs that year.

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He deserves that trip to New York.

The one thing PFF got right this year...

MSU gonna be mad mad mad. 

As someone who watched every down of Michigan football, it's nice to see what I saw corroborated by national experts.  Tired of pundits (with Heisman votes) who were dismissive of Corum because of an assortment of bad arguments ("anyone would be good behind that line" "bad out of conference schedule" "Edwards was just as good" "Michigan is 13-0 without Corum" "his YPG/YPC isn't that high" etc) as if Michigan's entire offensive gameplan wasn't built around Blake's ability to churn out extra yards, keep the offense on schedule and the defense rested, and control the gamescript.

I listened to the Cover 3 podcast the other day and Tom Fornelli, who is usually relatively thoughtful, disparaged Corum by comparing his yards per game unfavorably to a lot of other national RBs.  OK, first of all Tom didn't say he was excluding the OSU game in which Blake got 2 carries, let alone adjust for having 100+ yards vs Illinois then missing the 2nd half with injury.  

Then Bud Elliott referred to Michigan's "joke" out of conference schedule, as if he was compounding Tom's point.  Guess what, that schedule hurt Blake's YPG since he was removed so early!  This is the kind of stuff we get from people who clearly do not watch the majority of the games and lean into easy narratives out of convenience.

Can't help but notice Chase Young from OSU on the list.

Michigan has improved massively. They are tougher, stronger, more disciplined than OSU. However, it is a huge help to Michigan the last two years that we haven't had to deal with either of the Bosa brothers, or Chase Young, or a moblie QB.

Didn’t realize PFF was part of the BLUE WALL 

It’s unfortunate that qb is the glamour spot, because you could point to any number of years where a receiver, rb, or defensive player was undoubtedly the best player in football that year. Yet the award has gone to qbs so much in the past two decades.
 

Hutchinson, Anderson (Alabama) and KWIII should have been the top three last year. 

As an aside, the Maxwell award has also become a qb award, although more defensive players have won it than the Heisman.

If Blake doesn't get injured, he's definitely on his way to NYC. Stetson Bennett gives me those Ken Dorsey feels.

It does appear one entity / publication figured it out.

Instead, it looks like a fingernail painting QB will be noted on Saturday evening.

Not sure about you… but, how often do you, or your son(s), paint your fingernails?

I suddenly like PFF again 

I voted for him as well.

Can't argue with math, friends.  Heisman it is!

Under the metrics that were in place in 1991, Desmond was as legitimate and worthy a winner as any other offensive player who has won the award (and a lot more worthy than plenty of past winners).

However, if you're evaluating award winners with reference to the stated criteria of purporting to recognize the best player in college football—the Heisman criteria does not specifically mention offensive player—the only legit winner since the disappearance of true two-way football has been the player who did it all on defense, offense, and special teams: #2.

How did I not know that Kool-Aid McKinstry existed until reading this article?

I like PFF, but sometimes their stats can be misleading. They have USC as Joe Moore winners over Georgia or Michigan. USC's line was good but come on. The Hornung went to Kool-Aide McKinstry???? They had the Minnesota center as the highest rated center and winner of Rimington. 

I agree with the rest of their picks (Jalen Hyatt for UT also is deserving of Biletnikoff award).  Anyone know when they officially announce the award winners? 

Corum should be a top first rounder in the draft. I don't see him coming back since RB careers are relatively short.

If BC doesn’t get hurt against Illinois, he fishes with around 200 yds and another TD or 2. Then figure he gets at least 2/3rds of the yards edwards got against OSU and Purdue, along with another 2-3 tds and he ends up with around 1800-1850 yds and 22-23 tds and 10 games in a row over 100 yds rushing. And that’s with sitting out the second halves of all 3 non-con games. 
 

If that isn’t Heisman worthy then I don’t know what is anymore for a running back.

As it should be. Unfortunately, the Heisman had become a quarterbacks-only award.

Heisman means very little these days

If they would just change the Heisman description to "Most outstanding Quarterback in college football" They could save themselves a whole lot of grief and put it to bed.