Will Keenan Reynolds become a 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist? It's an enticing question, to be sure, but it's not one Ken Niumatalolo or the rest of the Navy football family should be giving any attention to -- not now, not next week, and not when this season begins. However, with that having been said, it's possible for team success to make an individual award possible.
When individual awards acquire an outsized level of focus, the performance of the team suffers. This can and does happen in college sports, but it’s even more native to professional sports, in which players in a contract year load up on stats which an agent can sell in future negotiations, rather than doing whatever the team needs first and foremost.