There was never any serious doubt, but it’s now official. Ashton Jeanty is formally recognized as the winner of the 2024 Doak Walker Award. The Doak Walker Award is awarded annually to the nation’s top college running back. With statistics like his, it was likely never going to be much of a contest. He had more yards *after contact* than any other running back had rushing yards overall.
Update: In addition to the Doak Walker Award, he was announced this evening to ALSO be the winner of the Maxwell Award, which is an award that selects the top overall college football player. This gives some hope to what may transpire in just one more full day…
Saturday night will bring the results for the most significant remaining award he’s in consideration for: the Heisman Trophy. It is most prestigious award, given annually to the nation’s top overall college football player. Although, with only a small handful of exceptions, that award has almost always gone to a quarterback for the last several decades. What makes this year’s award unique is that, while two of the four finalists are quarterbacks, it really seems to be coming down to a decision between Colorado’s CB/WR, Travis Hunter, and Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty. Hunter is noteworthy for playing full time as both an elite CB (despite not being a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, presented annually to the nation’s top college DB) and an impressively accomplished receiver. Ashton Jeanty is noteworthy for being an incredible leader, on and off the field, and for scoring 30 total TDs, while also coming within 131 yards of Barry Sanders’ single season rushing record (on the same exact number of carries: 344), set in 1988.
So, congratulations to Ashton Jeanty on his incredible accomplishment in winning the Doak Walker Award. On to the #Hei2man!
Updatier update: Ashton Jeanty and Kage Casey have been named Walter Camp All-Americans! Jeanty has also been named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) first team.
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One down, two more to go.
Heisman and Natty.
Michael, my only contention would be your statement that Hunter is an “elite” CB. He’s good, not elite, as seen by his being left off the list for the Jim Thorpe Award.
I have no doubt that, had Jeanty played every quarter of every game, he would have broken Sanders’ record by now. That still makes me shake my head. I’m looking forward to seeing Jeanty take home the Heisman!
good receiver as well, had an NFL #1 draft pick throwing to him
Agreed-good, not elite. I looked at the stats again this morning. They aren’t eye-popping. In fact, other than #2 in receiving TD’s, I couldn’t find anything above #6, and that was in total receiving yards and yards per game.
Arguably the best-ever college running back. As I’ve stated before he is running against far better football players than Sanders did. To restate; in the history of all college football, he is the best. How do you not reward that with a Heisman?
Well, either way, it brings amazing attention to Boise State in general. Name any other current / former G5 school to have TWO Heisman finalists…….. mind you only 13 years a part. I certainly can assure everyone here that Danielson is on his way to a major pay upgrade in the coming 45-50 days. I believe he returns for 2025 because Boise is definitely building something special & he truly loves the program, but assuming Boise has another terrific year in 2025, don’t be surprised when all the elite P4 schools doing everything they can to court him Barry Odom… Read more »
All great points.
It will be interesting to observe how Danielson merges NIL with his vision of a developmental program. My comment is not meant to be skeptical but to express curiosity.
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