(AP Photo/Brett Davis, File)
I was resigned to this. If Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh didn’t win the award in 2009 (he placed fourth), and Alabama’s Will Anderson Jr. didn’t win it last year (he placed fifth), and none of the EIGHT players on Georgia’s defense who found themselves drafted by NFL teams in 2021 didn’t win it last year (Jordan Davis placed ninth), Georgia’s Jalen Carter, who may have been the best player on that historic defense in 2021, and somehow raised his game in 2022, had no shot.
That’s ridiculous and unfair, but that’s the way it is. No defensive player has a chance to win the Heisman Trophy, and we apparently have to accept that. But if you were to ask me who the NCAA’s best, most transformative, most unstoppable, and most dominant player was in 2022, I’ll tell you that it was Carter, and the tape tells the story.
Here, Carter gets past three Tennessee blockers to pressure quarterback Hendon Hooker (more on him in a minute), and throughout the season, Carter has been throwing opponents around as if they were his small children.
You tell me that Jalen Carter wasn’t the best player in the NCAA in 2022. Go ahead. pic.twitter.com/gesSSegUFn
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) December 6, 2022
Want further proof? Ask LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels, who found himself picked up with one hand by Carter in the SEC Championship game, while Carter held up the “No. 1” sign with the other hand.
My god Jalen Carter picking up Jayden Daniels like a father picking up his son pic.twitter.com/o9xcaoLOmq
— Mike Renner (@PFF_Mike) December 3, 2022
Kirby Smart on Jalen Carter lifting up Jayden Daniels: “We don’t let him do that to Stetson, he’d break him in half.”
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) December 4, 2022
Jalen Carter knows he’s No. 1. Too bad the Heisman voters weren’t prepared to take that into consideration.
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