Te'o's constantly the best player on the field and makes incredibly clutch plays. Not to mention, he's leading a top two defensive unit that has talent deficiencies, according to the experts.
Also, he's not just the best player, he's also the team's leader.
Ryan Shazier has similar stats, makes clutch plays, and is the best player on the defensive side of the ball. No D player should be up for it unless they are putting up Suh like numbers or playing both sides of the ball like Woodson.
I think Barner vaulted into the top 2 this past weekend IMO
Same, especially since he closes out the last month of the season with (probably) 4 games, of which 3 are going to be big matchups (Stanford, Oregon State, PAC-12 championship) where he's not going to be getting rested in most of the 2nd half like he has for the early part of the season.
Ryan Shazier has similar stats, makes clutch plays, and is the best player on the defensive side of the ball. No D player should be up for it unless they are putting up Suh like numbers or playing both sides of the ball like Woodson.
I think we need to add Johnny Football's name to this discussion after the way he has shredded the vaunted 'Bama defense todday. (yeah, he's a redshirt freshman, blah blah blah, but he should at least qualify to make the trip to NYC)
Regarding Te'o, if a defensive player is up for the Heisman, they need more than 5.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks. He can be a coverage guy all he wants but his stats aren't that great for a ILB other than INT's.
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Tweet from Heismanpundit last night that makes a salient point:
Chris Huston @HeismanPundit
Was wondering how Te'o was doing tonight. Checked the box score….nothing there! This's 1 reason why defensive players can't win the Heisman.
Tweet from Heismanpundit last night that makes a salient point:
Chris Huston @HeismanPundit
Was wondering how Te'o was doing tonight. Checked the box score….nothing there! This's 1 reason why defensive players can't win the Heisman.
Unless you have a year like Suh (52 solo/33 assisted, 85 total, 20 TFL, 12 Sacks, 1 INT) or AJ Hawk (69 solo/52 assisted, 121 total, 16.5 TFL, 9.5 Sacks, 1 INT) in their senior years a defensive player shouldn't be up for it.
Regarding Te'o, if a defensive player is up for the Heisman, they need more than 5.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks. He can be a coverage guy all he wants but his stats aren't that great for a ILB other than INT's.
Any reason why Miller's over Manziel? Just curious, not trying to say it's not right or anything.
Any reason why Miller's over Manziel? Just curious, not trying to say it's not right or anything.
Miller and tOSU is undefeated, Texas A&M is not. Miller's numbers mainly rushing, would also be higher if he didn't have a RB carrying it 20-25 times a game as well (Carlos Hyde) who missed 2 games this year already.
Miller and tOSU is undefeated, Texas A&M is not. Miller's numbers mainly rushing, would also be higher if he didn't have a RB carrying it 20-25 times a game as well (Carlos Hyde) who missed 2 games this year already.
Fair enough. Team records do play a huge part in this, more than I'd like them to, but that's not gonna change any time soon.
I don't think he passes enough to be a serious candidate, but he definitely deserves to be mentioned.
With the RB argument though, that's almost every dual threat QB. He still gets at least 15-20 carries a game. You could make the same argument for Manziel, and also that he's been a more consistent runner with less carries per game (15.6 for Manziel, 18.4 for Miller). They're also putting up very similar YPC numbers (Manziel at 6.5, Miller at 6.34). At the same time, Manziel's passing dwarfs Miller's, and while the argument could be made that Miller isn't getting enough attempts, he has a rather poor comp. % and I'm willing to bet his coaches don't trust him throwing the ball that much (haven't watched but a couple games). Take out the disaster against LSU and Manziel looks even better compared to Miller.
Of course, that's only really going by statistics. I'd love to see these two play, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. Regardless, Klein's pretty much got this one wrapped up, so there's not much point in debating it.
