Alabama running back Derrick Henry won the 2015 Heisman Trophy, beating out Stanford's Christian McCaffrey and Clemson's Deshaun Watson. Here's his emotional speech after winning the award, transcribed below.
NEW YORK — If you subscribe to the MVP theory of the Heisman Trophy, it would have been easy to choose any of the finalists as winner. But if that's the criteria, the voters got it right. Perhaps no one meant more to his team's success than Derrick Henry.
The most prestigious award in college football, the Heisman Trophy, will be presented Saturday night. Winning the annual Heisman Trophy is a big deal for a college player. The award is recognition of “performance [that] best exhibits the pursuit of
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Jackson, the 1985 winner from Auburn, and Ingram, the 2009 winner from Alabama, are two of the five members of the Heisman club who were born in Alabama, played their college football in Alabama or both. They're joined in that exclusive fraternity by