Every season there is always some college football player who bursts onto the national stage with a couple of fantastic performances to leap in front of everybody to snatch the Heisman Trophy in September or early October.
And every year, almost like clockwork, the presumed front-runner seems to falter after a loss or bad outing and fails to capture the award they were handed just weeks earlier.
A few years ago, West Virginia’s Geno Smith was the guy, then he wasn’t. Last year, Todd Gurley could have won the award, until suspension and injury derailed his season.