Heisman Trophy Trivia

It's not often I do two entries in one day, but here we are.

   While watching the Ole Miss/LSU game, CBS posted their the trivia question of the game. It involved the two Mannings who were Ole Miss quarterbacks, Archie (1970) and Eli (2003). Both men were 3rd in the Heisman voting in their senior seasons. CBS asked the question who were ahead of Archie and Eli in the Heisman voting? Here is the answer.

   Archie was 3rd behind Joe Theismann and winner Jim Plunkett. Eli was 3rd behind Larry Fitzgerald and winner Jason White.

That trivia question inspired these two trivia questions.

1) Which NFL team drafted the most Heisman winners?

The Detroit Lions drafted 10 Heisman winners.

1936 Larry Kelley - E (Yale)
1937 Clint Frank - RB (Yale)
1942 Frank Sinkwich - RB (Georgia)
1946 Glenn Davis - RB (Army)
1949 Leon Hart - E (Notre Dame)
1955 Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy - RB (Ohio State)
1969 Steve Owens - RB (Oklahoma)
1978 Billy Sims - RB (Oklahoma)
1988 Barry Sanders - RB (Oklahoma State)
1989 Andre Ware - QB (Houston)

2) Which NFL teams have never drafted a Heisman Trophy winner?

There are 5 teams:

Miami Dolphins
Houston Texans
Jacksonville Jaguars
San Diego Chargers
Seattle Seahawks

There are three teams who drafted Heisman winners, but no longer exist:

   The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted 1939 winner Nile Kinnick from Iowa in 1940. The Dodgers were in the NFL from 1930-44. The Boston Yanks drafted QB Angelo Bertelli from Notre Dame with their first ever pick in the draft in 1944. Boston was in the NFL from 1944-49. The New York Bulldogs drafted RB Doak Walker from SMU in the first round. The Bulldogs were in the NFL from 1949-51. They were the Bulldogs in 1949 and the Yanks their last two years.