- Reggie Bush
Reginald Alfred “Reggie” Bush II, nicknamed 'The President', alluding to President Bush, is an American football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He has played Running Back/Tailback, Wide Receiver, Kick Returner and Punt Returner. On December 8, 2005, Bush was awarded the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award. On December 10, Bush won the Heisman Trophy, beating finalists Vince Young and former Heisman winner and teammate Matt Leinart.
- Matt Leinart
Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983 in Santa Ana, California) is an American football quarterback (QB) for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Southern California Trojans, leading them to an AP national championship in 2003, a BCS national championship in 2004, and an appearance in the 2005 BCS national championship game. Leinart earlier played QB at Mater Dei High School, Santa Ana.
- Troy Smith
Troy Smith (born July 20, 1984 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former starting quarterback for The Ohio State University football team from 2004-2006, and the winner of the 2006 Heisman Trophy. He was selected with the 174th overall selection in the 5th round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. Smith graduated from Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio where he was coached by Ted Ginn Sr., father of his Ohio State and high school teammate Ted Ginn Jr.
- Carson Palmer
Carson Palmer (born December 27, 1979 in Fresno, California) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Cincinnati Bengals franchise. He attended the University of Southern California, where he won the Heisman Trophy Award in 2002 in his senior season. He was drafted by the Bengals with the first overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft and signed a 9-year, $118.75 million contract extension on December 29, 2005.
- O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.
- Ricky Williams
Errick Lynne Williams, Jr. (born May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American football running back whose NFL rights are held by the Miami Dolphins. He was originally drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round (fifth overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Texas.
- Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945 in Miami Beach, Florida) is a former American football player and currently the head coach of the University of South Carolina football team. He was a two-time All-American and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
- Ron Dayne
Ron Dayne (born March 14, 1978 in Berlin, New Jersey) is an American football running back for the Houston Texans of the NFL. He is best known for holding the NCAA record for career rushing yards and a memorable performance against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving in 2005 as a member of Denver Broncos.
- Jason White
Jason White (born June 19 1980) was a quarterback for the University of Oklahoma football team from 1999 to 2004 (jersey number 18). White was raised in Tuttle, Oklahoma playing high-school football there with the Tuttle Tigers (jersey number 17). After suffering from consecutive anterior cruciate ligament tears and reconstructive knee surgeries on both knees during the 2001 and 2002 seasons, …
- Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker (born March 3, 1962, in Wrightsville, Georgia) is a former professional American football player in the United States Football League and the National Football League.
- Archie Griffin
Archie Mason Griffin (born August 21, 1954) is a former American football running back and college football's only two-time Heisman trophy winner. Griffin won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Ohio State Buckeyes and is the only player ever to start in four Rose Bowls.
- Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional gridiron football player in the National Football League (American football) and Canadian Football League (Canadian football). Within the United States, he is perhaps best known for his career at Boston College and for the Boston College v. Miami game on November 23, 1984, in which his "Hail Mary" pass won the game for BC 47-45.
- Danny Wuerffel
Danny Wuerffel was born May 27, 1974 in Pensacola, Florida. He grew up as the son of an U.S. Air Force Chaplin, living all over the country as well as three years in Spain. Danny graduated as valedictorian of Fort Walton Beach High School in Florida, where he led his football team to the state championship. While at the University of Florida, Danny led the Gators to four SEC championships and a National title.
- Eric Crouch
Eric Eugene Crouch (born November 16, 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American and Canadian football quarterback who played collegiately for the University of Nebraska, and currently plays professionally with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. In 2001, Crouch won the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the United States.
- Desmond Howard
Desmond Kevin Howard (born May 15, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former American football wide receiver, punt returner, and kick returner in the NFL. He played for the Washington Redskins (1992-1994), Jacksonville Jaguars (1995), Green Bay Packers (1996, 1999), Oakland Raiders (1997-1998) and Detroit Lions (1999-2002). Prior to his professional career, he attended the University of Michigan where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1991.
- Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders (born July 16, 1968) is a Hall of Fame and Heisman Trophy winning American football running back who spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions of the NFL. Sanders is best known for being among the most prolific running backs in NFL history who notoriously cut his career short in its prime, leaving him just short of Walter Payton's all-time rushing record (since broken by Emmitt Smith).
- Eddie George
Edward Nathan George, Jr. (born September 24, 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former American football running back of the NFL. He played for the Tennessee Titans both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers, and spent his final season with the Dallas Cowboys. He is best known for his career with Tennessee Titans.
- Charles Woodson
Charles Woodson (born on October 7, 1976 in Fremont, Ohio) is an American football cornerback for the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at the University of Michigan for the Michigan Wolverines. In 1997, Woodson led the Wolverines to a national championship and won the Heisman Trophy. He is the only primarily defensive player to have won the award. Woodson was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft.
- Chris Weinke
Christopher Jon Weinke (born July 31, 1972 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a professional American football player who is currently a free agent. He was released by the Carolina Panthers on March 6, 2007. He has primarily been a backup during his NFL career.
- Tim Brown
Timothy Donell Brown (born July 22, 1966) is a retired National Football League player who was predominantly used as a wide receiver and also as a kick and punt returner early in his career. He spent all but one season of his 16-year career on the Oakland Raiders, and played his last season in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Bo Jackson
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962 in Bessemer, Alabama) is an American athlete and a former multi-sport professional. Jackson played at the highest level of sports in the United States in both American football and baseball. In football, Jackson played running back for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League. In baseball, Jackson played left field and designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago White Sox, …
- Marcus Allen
Marcus LeMarr Allen (born March 26, 1960 in San Diego, California) is a former American football player, and until recently affiliated with CBS as a game analyst. As a professional, Allen ran for 12,243 yards and caught 587 passes for 5,411 yards during his career for both the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs from 1982 to 1997. He scored 145 touchdowns including a then league record 123 rushing touchdowns and was elected to six Pro Bowls when he retired.
- Roger Staubach
Roger Thomas Staubach (born February 5, 1942) is a businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and former American professional football player where he was the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys for most of the 1970s during their reign as America's Team. Staubach first achieved national attention when he was named the starting quarterback of the Navy football team in 1962.
- Vinny Testaverde
Vincent Frank Testaverde (born November 13, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) He is a American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and has previously played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Dallas Cowboys. As a University of Miami quarterback, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1986.
- Tony Dorsett
Anthony Drew Dorsett (born April 7, 1954 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Rochester, Pennsylvania), and lived in Hopewell Township, PA. Tony is a former American football running back who was a star in High School Football at Hopewell High School and in college football at the the University of Pittsburgh. In the NFL, he had a Hall of Fame career with the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos.
- Ernie Davis
Ernie Davis (December 14, 1939 - May 18, 1963) was an American Football player who became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by the Washington Redskins then almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns in December 1961. However, the running back would never play a professional game after developing leukemia in 1962.
- Ty Detmer
Ty Detmer is considered one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time. In his junior year, Ty passed for 5,188 yards and 41 touchdowns. His ability to strategically break down and precisely execute plays secured him 42 NCAA records in 1990 and the Heisman Trophy. In all, Ty finished his college career with 59 NCAA records and, including statistics from bowl games, he totaled 16,206 passing yards and 127 touchdown passes at BYU .
- Davey O'Brien
Robert David O'Brien was an American football player who played quarterback at Texas Christian University and for the Philadelphia Eagles, and was also an agent for the FBI. O'Brien played college football at Texas Christian University, and in 1938 led TCU to an undefeated season. O'Brien was named to thirteen All-American teams that season and became the first college football player to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award in the same year.
- Charlie Ward
Charlie Ward (born October 12, 1970 in Thomasville, Georgia) is an American football, basketball, and baseball player. Ward won the 1993 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for Florida State University, and subsequently led the Seminoles to their first-ever National Championship when FSU defeated Nebraska 18-16 in the 1994 Orange Bowl. The Seminoles had suffered their only defeat of the season to a second-ranked Notre Dame team, …
- Doak Walker
Ewell Doak Walker, Jr. (January 1 1927 - September 27 1998) was an American football player. He was born in Dallas, Texas and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas where he was a multi-sport athlete. Both he and future college and National Football League star Bobby Layne were on the Highland Park football team.
- Paul Hornung
Paul Vernon Hornung (born December 23, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former all-around athlete who played college basketball but is best known as an American football player. He was an outstanding athlete at Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget High School in Louisville (now closed), having lettered 4 years each in football, basketball and baseball. He was recruited by Bear Bryant to go to Kentucky but chose Notre Dame instead.
- Andre Ware
Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968 in Dickinson, Texas) won the Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for the University of Houston and was later drafted #7 in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Ware has been considered by many fans and sports writers alike as a 'flop' in the pros.
- Billy Sims
Billy Sims (born September 18, 1955 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American NFL Pro Bowl football running back. He currently is 32nd in all-time NFL rushing yards per carry
- Jay Berwanger
John Jay Berwanger (March 19, 1914 - June 26, 2002) was an American football player born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was the first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1935 - at that time awarded to the best player east of the Mississippi River. Berwanger had been a star at the University of Chicago under coach Amos Alonzo Stagg (both of whom were members of the Psi Upsilon fraternity). Berwanger was very modest about the Heisman and used the trophy as a doorstop in his library.
- Gino Torretta
Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970 in Pinole, California) is a former American football quarterback for several teams in the National Football League from 1993 to 1997. Torretta is best known, however, for winning the Heisman Trophy in 1992 as the quarterback of the University of Miami, playing on the University of Miami's National Championship teams of 1989 and 1991. He joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity at Miami.
- George Rogers
George Washington Rogers (born December 8, 1958 in Duluth, Georgia) is a former American football player who achieved distinction in both the college and professional ranks as a running back.
- Bruce Smith
Bruce P. Smith (February 8, 1920 - August 28, 1967), nicknamed "Boo", was an American football player best known for winning the Heisman Trophy in 1941. Smith was born in Faribault, Minnesota where he excelled in prep football under legendary football coach Win Brockmeyer and then attended the University of Minnesota. He played halfback for the back to back national champions Gophers in 1940 and 1941. He received the Heisman two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Mike Rozier
Mike Rozier (born March 1, 1961 in Camden, New Jersey) is a former American collegiate and professional football player. He was born in Camden, New Jersey.
- Jim Plunkett
James W. "Jim" Plunkett (born December 5, 1947 in San Jose, California) is a former American football quarterback who played collegiately for Stanford University, where he won the Heisman Trophy, and professionally for three National Football League teams: the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders.
- Billy Cannon
William Abb "Billy" Cannon (born August 2, 1937) is an All-American and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players. He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and moved to Baton Rouge when his father got a job there during World War II. He graduated from Istrouma High School.