Alabama’s opener receiver, DeVonta Smith, quizzed with the most coveted individual award from American college football
The receptor abierto de la University of Alabama, DeVonta Smith, was converted this March to the most recent collector of the codicaado Trofeo Heisman.
Smith, dressed in a smoking guinda tuxedo, converts to the third player of Crimson Tide to raise the prize, after the corridors Mark Ingram II (2009) y Derrick Henry (2015). Asimismo, Smith converts to the first receptor opener by adjusting the premium from Desmond Howard of 1991, cons Michigan. Is the quarter receiver open modern in llevarse the trophy, after Johnny Rodgers de Nebraska (1972), Tim Brown de Notre Dame (1987), and Howard.
The veloz receptor abierto del Crimson Tide led to the finalists with 447 first place votes in 1,856 total points.
“To all the chicks that stand out, do not go through the greatest, do not go through the strongest. Simply, sigan empujando”, dijo Smith as part of his acceptance speech, “because he is not the greatest. He taught me much for my sake, and in reality, it is simply reduced to what if you think in it, you can stay.
“Nothing is really big. If you put your mind to it, you can do it, and you can simply believe in God and you will have to do it”.
Smith He was also named player of the year in professional American football by The Associated Press this year. Smith also with the Paul Hornung Award, awarded to the most versatile player of the nation.
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The Alabama Reception has a spectacular time in the semifinals of the national championship.
Lead the FBS in receptions (105), yards in receptions (1,641) and touchdowns per reception (20). Además, Smith ha caared only two steps in all the year.
Smith pudo haber saltado al draft de la NFL the year passed, but the decision was made to Alabama for his senior year.
N ° 1 Alabama, led by Smith, disputará el proxxi 11 de enero el titulo nacional, frente a N ° 3 Ohio State, luego de que el Gety y los Buckeyes superara a Notre Dame y Clemson, respectively, in the semifinals of College Football Playoff.
El Heisman había sido entregado a quarterbacks en los ultimos cuatro años. The only players who win the Heisman of positions that did not make quarterbacks in the last 15 years, exactly Ingram, Henry and now Smith, all of Alabama. El Gety never held a trophy winner in the position of passenger.
The other three finalists will be awarded this year, in addition to Smith, eran quarterbacks: Trevor Lawrence de Clemson, Mac Jones de Alabama, y Kyle Trask de Florida.
Lawrence was the favorite of the time to win the prize, but lost both games against COVID-19 freno on the campaign. The passenger of the Animals finished second, with 222 first place votes and 1,187 total votes.
The third position is for Jones, the teammate of Smith, with 138 first place votes and 1,130 total points. Pull ‘s demand for 61 first place votes and 737 total points.
The prize is a mediated one virtual ceremony, debido to the coronavirus pandemic, in the traditional New York City travel route. El Heisman started on the first occasion to culminate in the time of 1935, Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago the first in receipt.