The Doak Walker Award is given out annually to college football’s best running back. There are certainly some very good and exciting ones this year and although his stats aren’t as great as some of the others, Kyren Williams of Notre Dame is certainly on the short list of the best running backs in the country.
Yet somehow Williams was not one of the ten players to be named to the Doak Walker Award semi-finalist list:
Doak Walker semifinalists:
Tyler Allgeier, BYU
Tyler Badie, Missouri
Breece Hall, Iowa St
TreVeyon Henderson, Ohio St
Sincere McCormick, UTSA
Bijan Robinson, Texas
Abram Smith, Baylor
Sean Tucker, Syracuse
Deuce Vaughn, Kansas St
Kenneth Walker, III, Michigan St— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 17, 2021
I am planning on writing a piece on how in this season that is lacking a true Heisman Trophy runaway favorite, how Kyren Williams is worthy of getting his name on ballots in a few short weeks.
We’ll save that for later but here is how some of the Twitter world reacted to Williams being left off the Doak Walker Award semi-finalist list: