Over the past two decades, USC's Reggie Bush and Alabama's Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry have proven to be outliers.
Of the last 20 Heisman Trophy winners, only three have been running backs — Bush in 2005, Ingram in 2009 and Henry in 2015. Sixteen of the last 20 Heisman winners have been quarterbacks, which will be the case again this weekend as Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, TCU quarterback Max Duggan, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud and USC quarterback Caleb Williams were the only finalists invited to Saturday night's ceremony in New York City.
So instead, the nation's best running backs will get their moment in the spotlight Thursday night when the winner of the Doak Walker Award will be announced.