The best two-way player to ever to wear a CU Buffs football uniform, Travis Hunter, sealed his immortality Saturday night.
Heisman Trophy finalist Travis Hunter, of Colorado, stands with the trophy during a college football press conference, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, in New York. Hunter, CU’s two-way, record-setting junior, became the winner of the 2024 Heisman Trophy, presented to the most outstanding player in college football, during a ceremony at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Like Nuggets icon Nikola Jokic, Hunter’s a unicorn, a generational talent blessed with the head, heart and hands to forge a seminal, singular path to immortality. Since 1980, no college football player at the FBS level had intercepted four passes in a season while also catching at least 90 passes and racking up at least 13 receiving touchdowns. Until Hunter.Ohtani’s not the best power hitter in baseball — that’s Aaron Judge.
None of this was ever meant to take away from Jeanty, the all-world tailback, Doak Walker and Maxwell Award-winning speedster out of Boise State, a man who’s somehow managed to run, step for step, stride for stride, with Barry Sanders’ ghost.Hunter does things, in tandem, that no one can remember seeing from anyone else. Ever.
the trophy is “awarded to the outstanding college football player in the United States whose performance epitomizes great ability combined with diligence, perseverance and hard work.” “But I definitely think some kids could do it. They’ve just got to be focused and ready to put all the hard work and the dedication for it.”“People have said that about me, that I was the best athlete ,” Westbrook said. “No. I’m not any longer. is literally No. 1.
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