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Lions have drafted more Heisman Trophy winners than any other team

The Detroit Lions have drafted more Heisman winners than any other team. Can you name all 10?

Congratulations to Colorado’s Travis Hunter, the winner of the 2024 Heisman Trophy. Hunter becomes the 89th winner of college football’s most prestigious award.

Hunter now progresses to the 2025 NFL Draft, where he is expected to be a top-5 overall pick. That will preclude Hunter from joining the long history of Heisman winners who were drafted by the Detroit Lions.

No team has drafted more Heisman Trophy winners over the years than the Lions. Detroit has selected 10 Heisman winners over the years, including two of the first three. It’s been 35 years since the last one, however; Detroit hasn’t drafted a Heisman winner since selecting Barry Sanders and Andre Ware back-to-back in 1989 and 1990.

All of the Heisman Trophy winners drafted by the Lions over the years, with the year of selection:

1937 – Larry Kelly
1938 – Clint Frank
1943 – Frankie Sinkwich
1947 – Glenn Davis
1950 – Leon Hart
1956 – Howard Cassady
1970 – Steve Owens
1980 – Billy Sims
1989 – Barry Sanders
1990 – Andre Ware

The history of Heisman Trophy winners in the NFL Draft

 

Texas returns to Houston years after Cougars’ stadium controversy

Houston appears to have a stadium that will support Texas fans this time.

The Houston Cougars and Texas Longhorns will meet on the football field for the first time since 2002. There might be a reason for the delayed reunion. Continue reading “Texas returns to Houston years after Cougars’ stadium controversy”

5 takeaways from Texans training camp Day 9

The Houston Texans held their eighth training camp practice. Tyrod Taylor continued to impress while Deshaun Watson remained absent.

HOUSTON — The Houston Texans held their ninth day of training camp at the Houston Methodist Training Center. Once again, the Texans’ defense stood out the most, as their secondary pulled down three interceptions on the day. Dating back to Friday’s practice, Houston’s defense has now recorded 16 turnovers in six days.

“A Lovie Smith defense has always been aggressive,” head coach David Culley says following Thursday’s practice. “It has been a defense that has always created turnovers — and we are seeing that right now. And that is what you wanna [see], the defense around the ball.”

Here are five observations from the Texans’ practice on the ninth day of training camp.

Justin Fields ranked fourth best quarterback prospect by ESPN analyst

ESPN’s Andre Ware says Justin Fields is the fourth-best pro quarterback prospect who is draft-eligible this season. Ummm, ok.

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During the BYU vs. Houston football game, ESPN commentator and former Heisman winning quarterback, Andre Ware made a somewhat bold statement. In naming his top five quarterback prospects for the NFL, he ranked Justin Fields No. 4 behind Zach Wilson of BYU and Kyle Trask of Florida.

Basically, since early in the 2019 season, pretty much every respected college and pro football analyst has had Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence and Fields as the top two draft-eligible QBs in 2021. Apparently Andre Ware is going for shock value.

To be fair, both Wilson and Trask are putting up solid numbers this season. In just three games, Trask has thrown for 996 yards with 14 touchdowns to only 1 interception while facing SEC competition.

Wilson has thrown for 1,641 yards and 12 touchdowns to just 1 interception along with 6 rushing TDs through five games — although BYU’s opponents have been somewhat lackluster.

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Maybe Ware was enamored with Wilson as BYU took Ware’s alma matter, Houston, to the woodshed on Friday night. Wilson torched the Cougar defense for 400 yards and 4 touchdowns.

I know Justin Fields hasn’t played a down as of yet this season, however, I feel fairly confident in saying if the 2021 NFL Draft were to take place tomorrow, Fields would most assuredly hear his name called before Ware’s picks.

Take it for what it is Buckeye fans… a former player trying to make a name for himself as an analyst with an offbeat opinion.

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Andre Ware named Lions worst QB of the Super Bowl era

Ware beat out the likes of Joey Harrington, Rusty Hilger and Chuck Long in ESPN’s best and worst QBs of the Super Bowl era rankings

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There is no competition at all for the best Detroit Lions quarterback of the Super Bowl era. Matthew Stafford is the only option.

The analysts at ESPN rightly agreed on Stafford. But in their ranking of the best and worst QB for each team in the last 54 years, there is some room for debate on who the worst has been for the Lions.

ESPN settled on Andre Ware. Based on the explanation ESPN gave, it seems he barely edged out Joey Harrington and did so on the basis of how quickly he flamed out after being a top-10 overall pick.

Worst QB: Andre Ware. Most probably remember Joey Harrington (2002 third overall pick) as the Lions’ biggest bust, but former Heisman Trophy winner Ware was the seventh overall pick in 1990, and he made only six starts and threw five touchdown passes in his career. Harrington at least made 55 starts with Detroit.

Ironically enough, Ware spent years at ESPN working as a college football analyst.

I would like to nominate Rusty Hilger and his 1988 abomination that helped lead to the need to reach for Ware in the 1990 NFL Draft. Hilger completed a league-worst 41 percent of his passes and threw 12 INTs against just seven TDs in his one season (nine starts) in Detroit. Granted the stakes and expectations weren’t as high, but that’s an astonishingly awful performance for Hilger in that era.

Chuck Long throwing 50 percent more INTs than TDs, and going 4-17 as a starter as a first-round pick deserves strong consideration too. Jeff Komlo was no great shakes, either.