So the Heisman votes will be released soon and we all know Derrick Henry from Alabama and Deshawn Watson of Clemson will be be invited to New York. Other people in the talk have been Leonard Fournette of LSU, Christian McCaffrey of Stanford, and Ezekiel Elliot of Ohio State. Here is my one question: where is Dalvin Cook?
My posts are normally very objective and I will give credit where credit is due. This even goes for rival teams like Clemson, Miami, and Florida. But for once, I have decided to rant about how it is a sham that Cook is not even in the conversation for the Heisman Trophy.
1. Rushing yards: Dalvin Cook does not have to most rushing yards in the NCAA. That title goes to Derrick Henry with 1797 yards on the ground alone. This is very impressive. Dalvin Cook has 1658 yards, 5th overall behind Fournette, Elliot, and Royce Freeman (Oregon). Dalvin missed one full game and was only in another game for 2 snaps. One of those snaps went for a 94 yard touchdown.
That aside, when Dalvin Cook played a full game, he averaged 156.4 yards per game. Subtract the 94 yards from his overall total and add 156.4 twice and Cook would have had 1876 yards, 79 more than Henry.
Let's not forget that those games were against Wake Forest and Syracuse.To put that into perspective, Syracuse gave up 244 yards to Fournette. Wake Forest allowed an average of 161.3 rushing yards per game (59th overall). If Dalvin had played, he probably would have broke the single-game rushing record against one of these teams.
2. Average Touchdown Run: Dalvin Cook's average yardage per touchdown was the best it has been by a back in the last 20 years. Dalvin Cook had a total of 19 touchdowns this year, 18 rushing and one receiving. Of those touchdowns, 12 of them were from outside of the red zone. Not enough? Five of those scores were from beyond 50 yards.
Dalvin's total yards on rushing touchdown runs alone is 697 yards, an average of 38.7 yards per touchdown run.
3. Of the Heisman contending running backs, Dalvin is the only one to be ranked in the top 6 in scoring, rushing touchdowns, rushing yards, all-purpose yards, rushing yards per game, and rushing yards carry.
Note: Dalvin is ranked 2nd in the last category
Fournette: 17th
Henry: 29th
Elliot: 20th
McCaffrey: 41st
Freeman: 11th
Let's not forget that Dalvin broke the FSU single-season rushing record in eight games or that he has 22 plays for 20+ yards this season (Leads FBS). Do not forget that he played three-quarters of the season with a hamstring injury and most importantly, HE NEVER HAD A TURNOVER IN THE REGULAR SEASON. What did Cook do? He still wrecked everyone and everything in his path.
Dalvin Cook deserves to be in New York, at least. Does he deserve to win? That is for another day.
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