Former Ohio State quarterback Joe Burrow has won the Heisman Trophy all while surrounded by two current Buckeyes who also went to New York as finalists.
The story of Burrow is quite amazing. He came out of small-town America in Athens, Ohio as a four-star recruit in 2015. He committed and enrolled at Ohio State, and was expected to eventually compete for the starting quarterback position in Columbus once J.T. Barrett moved on. He did indeed do that in the spring of 2018, but eventually graduated early and transferred to LSU after not being named the starter.
At LSU, he won the starting job last year and had modest success before developing into what we all witnessed in 2019. All Burrow did this year was set all sorts of SEC passing records, including throwing 48 total touchdown passes and eclipsing the single-season passing yardage mark.
Now, amazingly he is a Heisman winner, and a graduate of The Ohio State University. Other programs can say what they will about Buckeye fans rooting and calling him a Buckeye, but he is an Ohio State alum. He is also a full-fledged LSU Tiger.
Even Burrow himself paid homage to both programs and his roots.
There’s nothing but good things to say about a kid that has handled himself with class and made his dreams come true — even if it has been with another program in the SEC.
