When Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson threw for 231 yards, ran for 185 more and scored seven touchdowns against Boston College on Saturday, he joined some elite company in pursuit of college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy.
In its illustrious history, there have been only two winners who have passed for 2,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a single season: Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel in 2012 and Auburn’s Cam Newton in 2010.
Specifically, Manziel had 3,419 throwing (284.9 average per game) and 1,181 rushing (98.4), when the balloting occurred. Newton had 2,589 passing (199.2 average per game) and 1,409 running (108.