isaan.liveĀ — Travis Seeker transformed every play right into prime time — on both sides of the sphere — and eventually took home the Heisman Prize.
Currently, he has a leg up on his star trainer at Colorado.
The two-way celebrity won university football’s most prestigious honor Saturday evening, punctuating a tireless efficiency all period by a vibrant gamer with a unique mix of abilities.
“I never ever thought I would certainly remain in this position,” said a tearful Seeker, that got the prize hard with 2 hands and let loosened a happy roar. “It is insane.”
A big-play wide receiver and a lockdown cornerback, Seeker controlled on both sides of the sphere for trainer Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes, signing up with the late operating back Rashaan Salaam in 1994 as the just Heisman champions in institution background.
Seeker received 552 first-place ballots and 2,231 factors. Boise Specify operating back Ashton Jeanty was the runner-up with 309 first-place ballots and 2,017 factors, production it the closest margin of success since 2009, when Note Ingram bordered Toby Gerhart.
The previous highest total for a runner-up was 1,871 factors by Tua Tagovailoa in 2018, when Kyler Murray won.
Seeker gathered 80.14% of the feasible factors, the 11th highest in Heisman Prize background, and signed up with Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson (1997) as the just full-time protective gamers to claim the reward.
Woodson also made big plays on violation, but he didn’t play nearly as long as Seeker on that particular side of the sphere.
2 quarterbacks — Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel and Miami’s Webcamera Ward — finished 3rd and 4th, specifically, in balloting for the 90th Heisman Prize, provided yearly since 1935 to the nation’s most outstanding gamer.
This year’s event was held at Jazz at Lincoln Facility in Manhattan, where Sanders remained in participation.
It marked just the 5th time this century that a quarterback didn’t win. The last time no signal-caller put in the top 2 was 2015, when operating backs Derrick Henry of Alabama and Christian McCaffrey of Stanford ran 1-2 in the voting.
Hunter’s Heisman topped a week filled with honors for him, consisting of The Associated Push Gamer of the Year, the Walter Camp Honor as nationwide gamer of the year, the Chuck Bednarik Honor as the top protective gamer and the Fred Biletnikoff Honor for best wide receiver.