Badgers John Clay Deserves Heisman Hype

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Wisconsin Badgers Junior RB John Clay’s name will become a house hold name by the end of the 2010 college football season. Clay is getting mentioned on some sites as a Heisman Trophy candidate, however he is also not getting nearly the amount of respect he deserves.

The 2009 Big Ten Offensive Player of The Year is coming off of a sensational Sophomore season in which he totaled 1,517 yards on the ground with 18 TD’s. Needless to say he didn’t become the full time starter until the Iowa game in week seven. From that point forward he took the ball and ran with it as he finished the season with six straight games over 100 yards rushing. He also scored 11 TD’s, and averaged 133 yards a game on the ground during that six game span. Another staggering stat is he finished 8th in the Nation in rushing while only starting 8 games.

Another reason to watch out for John Clay this year is that the entire offensive line returns for Badger team that finished 10 – 3 a year ago and led the Big Ten in rushing with an average of over 200 yards per game. Clay will get the full load of carries this year for a team that loves to pound the ball, and if Clay stays healthy 2,000 yards and 20 TD‘s will be well within reach. Those numbers look like a Heisman Trophy winner, it’s time the radar has John Clay’s name on it.

Topics: Big Ten, College Football, Heisman Hype, Heisman Trophy, John Clay, NCAA, Ron Dayne, Top Running Backs, UW Football, Wisconsin Badgers

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Hey man welcome to the network, I write over on the Penn State site so I know we’ll be working together sometime soon on Big Ten articles and whatnot.

Once again, welcome. John Clay is a beast.

Troy Pieper

Thanks for the comment, and yes we’ll work together I’m sure in the near future, too bad Wisconsin doesn’t play Penn St. this year in football, there are a bunch of ideas I have that we could do for that game…. but Basketball will come soon and we can come up with something then. All of us from the big ten should do a preview / prediction article and post all of them on all of our sites!!