Add Lamar Jackson's name to the Pantheon of college football history.
The former
, who became the hottest athlete in college football with the Louisville Cardinals this season, was named the 2016 Heisman Trophy winner at the award ceremony in New York City Saturday night. Jackson finished ahead of the
Clemson's Deshaun Watson, Michigan's Jabrill Peppers, and Oklahoma's Baker Mayfield and Dede Westbrook. Jackson, a sophomore at Louisville, finished the regular season with 3,390 passing yards and 30 passing touchdowns while throwing only nine interceptions. In addition, he ran for another 1,538 yards and 21 touchdowns. His 51 total touchdowns is more than 89 Football Bowl Subdivision teams managed so far this season.
Jackson, who was picked as the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, dazzled fans and media members alike with highlight-reel plays -- a skill he mastered while playing for the Tigers.
"They came into my office, and the kids introduced him to me. They knew him from the past. And they said he was our new quarterback -- the very first day he got there," Jackson's former coach, Rick Swain, told the Palm Beach Post in September. "I looked at him and said, 'Well, you haven't scored a touchdown for me yet. You haven't thrown a pass, you haven't run one.' I told him he wasn't my quarterback, but he could try out to be my quarterback. He made me eat those words real quick that spring when I realized what I had."
