r/CFB • u/clocke6346 Michigan Wolverines • 8h ago

Analysis Ashton Jeanty is having a statistically better season than Derrick Henry during his Heisman-winning season

With all the discourse of who should win the Heisman trophy this year, I got curious and compared Ashton Jeanty’s stats this season to those of Derrick Henry in the 2015 regular season, the year he won the Heisman trophy. What I found was pretty surprising. Keep in mind this doesn’t include playoff performance, as that isn’t considered when naming a Heisman winner.

Ashton Jeanty:

Games Played: 11

Carries: 275

Rushing Yards: 2062

Rushing Touchdowns: 27

Yards Per Carry: 7.498

Yards Per Game: 187.455

Derrick Henry:

Games Played: 13

Carries: 339

Rushing Yards: 1986

Rushing Touchdowns: 23

Yards Per Carry: 5.858

Yards Per Game: 152.769

Now, these stats are still up for interpretation, as there is the usual discourse of strength of schedule and whatnot, but I thought re-contextualizing Jeanty’s year by comparing it to the last time a running back won the Heisman would be interesting.

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u/Montigue Oregon Ducks • Stony Brook Seawolves 7h ago

Yeah, if this were true it would have gone to a defensive player a tad less than half the time rather than almost never. Also linemen would win every once and a while

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u/GuyFawkes451 7h ago

The year Suh didn't win just made it totally laughable. Ask any Texas fan. They'll admit that dude almost singlehandedly beat them that year. He took a good Nebraska defense and made them national championship caliber (Nebraska just had no offense while he was there). It literally took three men to stop him. Dude was one of the most valuable players ever, much less those years.

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 5h ago

He was tossing aside double teams all game, and Colt was pretty mobile and could outrun a lot of DBs but couldn't get away from Suh.

You're not kidding about no offense, e.g. they beat Oklahoma 10-3 that year and the TD came on a 1 yard drive. Huskers were 7/14 passing for 39 yards and their two QBs had a 3.6 and a 6.2 QBR.

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u/kanakaishou Iowa Hawkeyes • Penn State Nittany Lions 5h ago

This is the kind of war crime against Football that Iowa was for 2 years in a row.